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We arrived in Bamburg at approx 2pm, Bamberg is a UNESCO World Heritage town built on 7 hills and is located at the entrance to the "Main-Danube Canal, through the centre of the town runs the Regnitz River, seperating the old town and the new town, it claims a population of 70,000 of which 10 per cent are students, I took a guided tour and our guides name was Erik, elderly gentleman with a white beard, red and white check shirt and the typical bavarian short pants and coat and a black hat with a red band around it and apparently that shows he is a story teller, not to sure about the story telling, as Erik walks very fast and you are trying to keep up with him, over cobblestones paths and watching out for the bikes and cars, we did see some very beautiful places of interest and Bamberg is a very busy town, my only dissapointment was the church we visited, very plain inside with no stained glass windows, very bare of statues etc, to me it was a sad little church. Finally as always we were left to our own devices and I found one of the Kathe Wohlfahrt Christmas shops (Very famous for christmas decorations) and bought two or three or four, bought some postcards, had an icecream and then made my way back to the meeting point to rejoin the ship.
Bamburg is also the town that the creator of the jeans was born, Levi Strauss
Saturday 26th
Up early this morning as the ship has already docked in Nuremburg and we have a guided coach and walking tour, the first part being the coach tour that you have a guide pointing out places of interest/history, the main topic, hearing about the rise and fall of Hitler's Nazi Party, we were shown the building that housed Hitler's police and this is an enormous building, also the building that he was building for his rallies, which was modelled on the Roman Colleseum and was never finished due to the war starting, we did stop at the area that we all see in photo's of Hitler standing in front of all the people on a parapet with his arm raised, there is only a section left now and the idea is to leave it to remind people of what happened, interestingly children are not taught about Hitler and his regime in the schools until they are 13 years of age.
We were then taken to the building that held the Nuremburg trails, still used today as a court house and the prison that held the war criminals, is stiil there.
Off into the city centre we then went and had free time, today being a Saturday the town square or market square as it is called was jam packed with tents selling every thing from fresh produce, flowers, home baked goodies and sausages, waffles, freshly made bread and a general flea market where anything could be sold. At this time of the year, end of summer, ginger bread time has come and people were selling it in abundance, I did try it but as the guide advised the taste of ginger and spices are very hard to taste and I agree.
Sunday 27th
We have arrived in Regensburg, a perfectly preserved medieval city right on the banks of the Danube, it is full of narrow cobblestone alleys and quaint market squares, it is also famous for having Germany's oldest sausage kitchen still in existance, we went for a walk in the town but as it is Sunday all shops are closed and only a few cafes and restaraunts were open, I did go into St Peter's Cathedral but it was very crowded due to mass being held.
At the moment we are all back on board heading for Passau.
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Laurel Sounds so different from your other travels but really interesting x