Stop Over at Leipzig

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Well actually Leipzig would also deserve a real visit. But it just did not fit into my schedule. As I did not had to travel too far today from Bamberg to Dresden, though a stopover at Leipzig of roughly six hours was easily possible though. At first I tried to discover the center of the city on my own – accompanied by a bunch of Wikipedia articles, which my smartphone nicely ordered by the current location. But to get some background information, I took the Read More +

A Nice Summer Residence

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Just for about 3 months each year, the “Schloss Seehof” was actually used as the summer residence of the regents of Bamberg. Quite obviously hunting was more important at this place, than managing the city. At least the subjects on the paintings in the various rooms available for a guided tour now, mostly show hunting scenes or hunting related motives. That guided tour was actually held just for me alone as it’s a bit end of season and there where no other guests around. For Read More +

After Many Years

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What started today in my through is really not necessary. But it feels like the start of a flu, which probably go a chance to outbreak due to my limited sleep consumption during the last night, as the poetry slam kept me awake quite a bit longer than normal. Anyway, today I visited a shop, I have not visited for years – a drug store, the “Brücken Apotheke“. The nice staff tried to get me some, hopefully helpful medications, to help me avoiding that potential Read More +

Like in France

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When I saw the “Michael” in the “St. Michael” monastery, the figure as it was posed reminded my on the same figure at “Mont St. Michel”, on the north coast of France. Of course it is no surprise that the figure features the same symbolics, but just out of my memory, the two figures in these two places really looked identical. But maybe it is as simple as the statue was created by the same artist. As I learned some hours ago in the Dome, Read More +

Old Prunk

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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 used for a “Kaiser”, it just had to be been build in case his majesty ever decided to come to Bamberg. It’s a quite a large room, with a very Read More +

Extremely Unlikely is not Impossible

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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 woman in company with her friend sayed hello and then asked: “Could it be that you have visited the USA four weeks ago?”. I must have looked a bit surprised, Read More +

Guided Tour Through Colorful History

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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 convenient groups. As the guide of our group was herself just returning from her holidays, she was quite motivated to explain us the various places. And instead of a one Read More +

Arriving at Bamberg

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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 at the hotel. Of course “short” is relative – it was easily an 8 km loop, where I came around a bit. Bamberg really looks like a very nice city Read More +

Lovely – Hotel Central

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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 starting point for explorations as a pedestrian. There is also a central bus station nearby, which offers all possible connections and for unscheduled trips, the taxi stop is right in Read More +

Train Time

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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 connection a bit – but this is fully with their image and thanks to the rather generous changing times no real problem. Only at the last train change in Würzburg Read More +