From the outside, the “Neue Residenz” looks just like a government building, which in fact it is today for the most part. On the inside the approximately rooms, which are still left in their original state, such as the “Kaisersaal”, make you feel like you are in an old castle. The “Kaisersaal” was actually never…
The story, which did unfold today was very strange but nice. While I was in the middle of a guided tour – almost at the end of which actually – in the Dome at Bamberg, I strolled around the altar of the Dome and was just about to catch up with the group. A young…
As the buildings in a city hardly speak for themselves, I decided to join a guided tour. I was a bit shocked to see that 80 other people had the same idea. That would get a a difficult tour. But luckily, the tourist office expected that many visitors and the crowed was split in four…
A bit too lazy to search for the hotel myself, I took a short ride by taxi to my home for the next 3 nights. The Hotel Central is a nice little hotel at the edge if the pedestrian zone. My first activity was a short exploration of the city center shortly after I arrived…
My first place to stay on my Germany tour is a small, but nice Hotel at the edge of the pedestrian zone at Bamberg. From the entrance Hotel Central, one merely has to walk around the building and one is in the middle of the old town of Bamberg. But it’s not only a good…
Finally its again time to travel. On this trip, I travel by train through Germany. On this first day the journey goes from Home to Bamberg. With the first train in Germany leaving Basel and arriving at Frankfurt on time, the trip started nice and calm. “Of course” the DB managed to delay the second…
