Day Two - Wurzburg to Nuremberg

May 17, 2018 – Wurzburg to Nuremberg

(Quickie – it’s already eleven thirty, p.m.!)

The buffet breakfast at the B&B Hotel was wonderful – several kinds of bread, three kinds of meat, two kinds of cheese, bard-boiled eggs, yogurt (hazelnut!) cereals, apple or pink grapefruit juice, and a wonder-coffee machine!  (latte, machiatto, etc!)

It's Spring Time!!

Back to the room, and on the road to Nuremberg.  The big semis have to stay in the right-hand lane and that’s a grand and wonderful thing because they often are reduced to a crawl! 

Bumper to bumper semis!

Our directions work pretty well until the very last step and that one didn’t work at all!  Eventually we found our way to a parking garage and asked a friendly policewoman for directions to the “hand work market”, Handwerkerhof.  Not too far!  

Marilyn bought a leather purse; but the handle had to be modified for her.

The very old, very large train station in the middle of town.

We had thought to spend the day looking at various remnants of the Nazi era and instead spent time and money buying hand-crafted gifts!  A much better use of our time!

There is an outdoor sculpture garden, Skulpturengarten, near the market and we explored there for a while, while the leather-working lady adjusted a purse that Marilyn bought.

  

Right next door, sort of, is the German National Museum and that was interesting, It traces German art from the Middle Ages to the present. 

Fun with mirrors!

Great water feature for the kids!  But watch out for the skateboarders!

The old entrance to the National Museum.  Now it provides access to the archives.

The new entrance is through this arch and on the left.  The white columns (it was really overcast!) spell out the elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN in 1948, in a number of languages.

Then dinner at Steichele Hotel & Weinrestaurant, on the recommendation of one of the ladies at the museum.  The specialty of Nuremberg is a little bratwurst and they usually come three on a bun.  Since we went to a real restaurant, we had a choice of six of the standard grilled version or the “sour” sausage, which is cooked in a vinegar-based broth with cabbage and carrots.  The grilled version comes with a choice of potato salad or kraut.  We decided to order both versions and split.  Good thing, because we couldn’t decide which we liked better.  The potato salad was made with vinegar, beef stock, and seasonings!

Marilyn was looking for a white wine that wasn’t too sweet and Andreas, our waiter, brought her a sample which she loved and ordered.  I had a wheat beer called Unertl, which was pretty great.

You never know when you're going to get a giggle!

We walked back to the car, figured out belatedly that the money machine doesn’t take cards, and finally began the hunt for our hotel.  We eventually asked a very helpful man at the desk of the Ibis Hotel in town where “our” Ibis was, and he gave me great directions!

We got there and Marilyn stayed with the car, which wasn’t in a legal parking place, while I went in – and up – and got us registered.  We put the car in the parking garage, grabbed our back packs and came upstairs to get settled in for the night.