Blogs from Nuremberg (aka Nürnberg), Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 11

Days 38 - 42: Sunday, January 3rd thru Thursday, January 7th, 2010: Pressath, Germany I'm smooshing (it's a word computer, stop telling me I spelled it wrong!) these 5 days together for a couple of reasons. #1 Blissfully, they were a calm 5 days and I didn't take that many pictures until the last day, Thursday and #2 (hehe, "who does #2 work for?") I'm having a hard time remembering what we did do as it is now 1/19/10 and I'm finally writing this. SUNDAY 1/3/10 So, yes, Saturday night was fun and had a good sleep. Woke up Sunday and I was worried that they were one of those families that got up, got dressed, and had breakfast then tackled the day. No, thank God, they're normal and it was an easy going "whenever, whatever" ... read more

Day 3, and once again we sleep until noon, and even then it was hard to get up! Groggy as we were, we pulled ourselves out of bed. Timmo and Judith volunteered to take Carter and Camille to a water park, while Renee and I went exploring in Nürnberg! Wow, the kids were thrilled and Renee and I got to pretend it was our Honeymoon again! Janni had to go back to school, so Timmo dropped Renee, Janni and I off at the Erlangen train station (Hauptbahnhof). Janni taught us how to negotiate the ticket machine, and, most importantly when to buy the local Bavarian family trip ticket. For 25 euros a family of four could travel anywhere in Bavaria for 24 hours! But, the train to Nürnberg was only 2.50 euros, so, we'd use the ... read more

Photos from our visit to Nuremberg, December 2009.... read more

We got up this morning, had some breakfast and then finished our packing, checked our e-mail and headed to the train station. We got there about an hour early, so we picked up some sandwiches for the train. While we were waiting for our track info, this guy in a surgical mask walked up to us and asked if we spoke English. He then was asking us where to buy tickets and proceeded to tell us he "was crazy," and wanted us to go with him to buy tickets. We figured he meant finding the ticket place was driving him crazy, but it worked in both ways. We explained where the tickets were, but wouldn't go with him. When we got on the train it seemed like all the seats were reserved (and it was crowded). ... read more

One day down! We went to Nürnberg today and surprisingly all went very well. First thing we went to an Internet Café because we found a few flaws in our planning - like no address of booked hostel etc. Then we found lockers and chucked our massive backpacks (mine 14 kg, Sam's 18 kg) - yes we are mad Backpackers - in. We then made our way to the toy museum through the very cute old town of Nürnberg. Every street is called something with König or Kaiser! The toy museum was a bit overrated it was rather boring. From the museum we went up the hill to the pretty little castle - also very cute. It had red-white-red window shutters and on the wooden door we spotted the Austrian flag plus eagle! All of Nürnberg's ... read more