An Old Home – AHA Hotel

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The AHA Hotel surprised me with a really large and nice room. Not only is there plenty of space in the bedroom, but apart from a bath there is also a small kitchen and the entire room could really serve as a small flat. The view from my little balcony into the backyard is also very nice and quite a bit of a contrast, when you take into account the front side of the hotel, which is rather a – lets say – regular street Read More +

Observations

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What one can see at the museum “Runde Ecke” is really a bit devastating. Of course one has heard or seen reports about the DDR Stasi (Staatssicherheit). But seeing the mini cameras taking up to 470 pictures and how they have been hidden in clothes or accessories is a different story. There were even specially constructed machines to open letters and seal them again. On the microphone and listing front, they of course also had quite small devices. Not really a big thing today in Read More +

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 +

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 +

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 +