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We left Prague at 9:00 am on Saturday morning after breakfast. When going to a buffet, Mary has no hesitation in secretly loading up her purse with items from the buffet that she will eat later. It is, as she describes it, her right to take all she wants.This morning was no different. When we left the breakfast table, her purse was loaded with two ham and cheese sandwiches and an extra roll. I have to admit that I gave her the second sandwich, but she shouldn't encourage me!
No traffic, so we sort of slipped out of town. We headed for Nuremberg making pretty good time on the autobahn. It rained all the way. My highest speed was 185 KPH or 115 MPH. Cars still flew by me at that speed. It's been awhile since I drove that fast. Kinda scary.....
We stopped at Nuremberg for lunch setting the GPS for the city center. We arrived during what was called the "Altstadtfest". A street fair with food and shopping. It runs 12 days prior to the start of Octoberfest. Absolutely fabulous. We had at least two wurst and brochen sandwiches and shared two beers.
We also stopped at two churches to light candles for family and friends.
One was Church of Our Lady. Built by Charles IV in 1355. Yea, the same Charles IV who ruled Prague that I talked about yesterday. Apparently,
Charles considered Nuremberg one of his favorite vacation spots. In the 12th century, Jews had a huge community in Nuremberg which pissed the catholics off. They beseeched Charles to rid the town of the Jews. He felt their pain and threw all the Jews out. In the process he burned 562 of them. Their synagogue was torn down and the Church of Our Lady was built. I guess the persecution of the Jews happened before the Nazis came along? IWith that history, I doubt that God is going to listen to too many prayers offered at this location - but, I offered my prayers for family and friends just in case he didn't remember this little history nuggets, The second church was St. Sebold's. When we walked into the church a wedding was just finishing.
We couldn't help but notice a group of young American soldiers dressed in civilian clothes, their hats turned around, loud and drunk in the public square. A little embarrassing, but like everyone else, we walked by ignoring them.
We let the GPS guide us out of Nuremberg. It got us completely lost as we instructed it to ignore autobahns and other toll roads. We stopped for the night, vowing to never let the GPS be our sole guide. We landed in the town of Aalen.
Erwin Rommel grew up in Aalen. It has an extensive downtown market and restaurant area. All of which was closed by 5:45 on Saturday night! What's up with that? We took a walk through the area after checking in and found shopkeepers and restauranteurs locking their doors for the night.
We settled for an Italian restaurant in our hotel expecting the worst. It was absolutely fabulous. One of the best meals I have ever had outside of my mother's lasagna and Jane Peale's veal birds.
We ate at the bar. We drank at the bar. We smooched at the bar. A wonderful day.
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Micki Terry, that's why any "traveler" packs extra ziplock sandwich bags!!! One never knows if a restaurant will be open to feed you. :) The trip is sounding more fabulous than you had planned!!! Wow!