November 3-Nurenburg

Saturday, Nov. 3

If it is Saturday, this must be Nuremburg.

Famous for its' WWII war crime trials, Nuremburg is also a classical German very old city. It had been the center of trade for many decades due to its' central location for rivers and trade routes.

We had an excellent guide on the Red bus (there were three groups off the ship, Red-Blue-Yellow) who had a funny way of highlighting the various spots. We ended up in the market square, complete with quite a few vendor setups for tourists and locals.

St. Peters' Church was on the edge of the market square. It is famous for the Glockenspiel clock and its' noon (actually 2 minute till noon as the Germans are very precise) performance.

Glockenspiel on St. Peters Church

Market square
"Beautiful Fountain"--as it is truly called!

At 12:05 (after the precise glockenspiel performance), the ship travelers gathered in the Bratwurst Rossele (sp?) restaurant for a paid lunch. Complete with beer. Very good sausage, sauerkraut and potatoes.

Some of the 'Gang of Twelve"

And more of the "Gang of Twelve"

Lunch in Nuremburg
After lunch, some folks went to the "Documentation Center", a section of the Congress Hall turned into a museum of pre-WWII presentations about the way in which Hitler was able to take the country into war. The rest of the folks went back to the ship.

Upon returning to the ship, there was a presentation from a local political professor who talked about present day German politics and the rise of the far right parties. Very instructive with lots of Q&A afterwards.

After dinner there was a presentation about the architecture and installation of the lock system on the Rhine-Main-Danube canal system.

Bedtime, overnight sailing, docked in Bamburg in the mornng. That is Boomburg, not Bam burg.

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