This is our third visit to Nuremburg and it will not be the last. There is something about the place that we like a great deal, whether that is the shopping, the old town area, the great food (the German's, like us, do have a wide range of food options and it is not just pork and sausage) and drink or the fact that there is so much to see and do that a week here could easily be filled if you add a couple of side trips in as well. Arriving at Nuremberg's Hauptbahnhof it was just a short walk to our hotel, the A&O, which is a sort of hostel/hotel. It seems that given the majority of the clientele seem to be teenagers that it is more hostel than hotel. Even though it was cheap, a few extra euros would have got us a room in one of the other budget hotels close by which would probably have been more our style. That said, all we did was use it as a place to sleep and for that it was not too bad. Our visit this time coincided with the annual Easter Market. This is not as well known as the Christmas Market but it did mean that there were plenty of additional shopping opportunities and sausage stands for us to take advantage of! This does however mean that we have not seen the market place without any market recently so we will have to have a fourth trip. The old town area, much destroyed in WW2 and since rebuilt, has a nice feel about it and the blending of new and old has been done fairly well. It is well worth putting at least a day to one side just to walk and explore the back streets as well as the well trodden main streets of the city. From the castle overlooking the city, to the old city walls and towers this really is a nice place to visit. Nuremburg is also synonymous with the Nazi Party and the huge rallys that were held on the outskirts of the city in the 1930s with hundreds of thousands of people coming to take part. The plan envisaged large stadiums and congress halls as well as large open air arenas in which to hold this annual week long event. Only the Zeppelin Field and one stadium was completed with the congress hall only being half built before the outbreak of WW2. The scale of what was proposed is staggering and what remains is a reminder of those dark times in Germany's history. The museum (or document centre) housed within part of the congress hall was an interesting but disturbing exhibit that we took around three hours to visit. With another visit on the cards at sometime in the future we will be able to visit the Nuremburg Trials Museum, something we hoped to do in the afternoon after visiting the rally grounds but with the time spent in the exhibit, a lunch break in an open air beer garden and the walk around the rally grounds site we simply did not have time. We now head off to France to spend a couple of weeks in Malestroit which will see us finish our six months or so of travel. So a flight from Nuremberg to Paris followed by a TGV to Rennes awaits to get us to Brittany.