Nuremburg

hello from the Nuremburg castle wall

Right now is 51 degrees and raining. I am super happy to have rain and totally fine with putting back on the space boots for warmth again. It is just unusual weather for us right now. I have heard rumors of possible snow in the mountains. To me it means no wild fires can happen today. I think I am little scarred from the Summer of Mordor in Colorado.


But back to the European recap! I have only two more stops to cover and one day off this week. I am motivated to not move, thanks weather, and finish.

On our ride to our final over night stop, we ended up in Nuremburg for a few hours. When Davis lived in Germany as a kid, this was the closest big city. He remembers going there on occasion and so we were able to explore and spark his memory. Had we more time, we would have loved  a longer visit. Nuremburg has old town charm with big town variety.

 

The main train station spits you out across the street from the old walls of Nuremburg. Immediately, I was super excited because old stuff is awesome. We popped into a tourist office to find out where the castle was located and proceeded to cut straight through town to the opposite side. Along the way we stopped a few times for pretty churches.

bustling city on a beautiful Saturday

St. Lawrence church

Church of Our Lady

Beautiful Fountain (literal title in guide)
in the Hauptmarkt

entering into inner castle

much cuter and cleaner than probably was
in its useful years

We took a tour that was mostly a museum but interesting. They showed a lot of pre and post WWII Nuremburg and castle grounds through out the property. Of course, like much of Germany, it was bombed pretty severely. This particular castle was important to the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout this trip, I guess I finally realized the the Holy Romain Empire was actually like a functioning Empire. That probably sounds dumb but I hadn't really thought about it before.

We climbed the Sinwell Tower

Nuremburg from the tower

more of the castle from the tower

the part of the castle we toured from the tower

handsome studly man in a tower

Because I really love this guy, a whole bunch

castle...

castle...

We walked all around the castle grounds. Davis explained how is younger self saw all of this. This kid-like tour pointed out fun parts to a kid:

like large grates to pour hot oils on enemies
(and being mesmerized by them as a kid)

and eating Lebkuchen (german christmas cookies) from a cart
before entering castle from the bridge.
Reliving the memories. Not pictured: cookies.

After having enough of the castle, we wandered back through town. We stopped briefly at Albrecht Durer's house, a few more beautiful churches. The further north into Germany we went, the more Evangelical churches there were from The Reformation. We, of course, found some Lebkuchen in the market and ate them before any photographs could be taken.  Yum Yum.

one of my favorite artists. ever. no really. he is B.A.

in love with interiors.

Last stop, an icon of Nuremburg, before heading back to the train

We really only got to briefly see a small amount of the offerings of Nuremburg. I need to go back and eat more cookies. But off to Rothenburg ob der Tauber!