My first trip was a one-day trio to Bremen, I haven't explored the north side of Germany that much (only Hamburg), so one day I decided I want to go there. Got some tips from Tobias, my colleague who is originally from Bremen. Ole decided to join me for this trip (so I had a photographer :-P). We took quite early train (forgot exactly how early it was) and joined a guided tour in Rathaus (town hall) which is one of the Unesco World Heritage sites. Then we just enjoyed Bremen by foot..admiring the Roland statue in the Marktplatz and for sure the famous Bremer Stadtmusikanten. Walking along the pedestrian passage of Boettcherstrasse, the promenade, and the Schnoorviertel, the oldest quarter in the city. We managed to visit the art museum in Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Haus. We're lucky to have a nice sunny spring day and we left Bremen after an early dinner in one restaurant at the main square (forgot the name already :-P).
My second trip was to Nuernberg, my initial 'obsession' with this city is because its famous Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market), but Ole convinced me that it would be hard to enjoy Nuernberg during that period since there would be lots of people around. So during one of the Bruecketag (we took friday off because thursday was bank holiday) we went there. Nuernberg is a nice city with its pretty medieval old town. We stayed there one night, in the first day we basically walked around the old town, visited the Schoener Brunnen, the beautiful Kaiserburg, Albrecht-Duerer-Haus, Ehekarussell,and dropped by at the Japanese art exhibition in Stadtmuseum. The next day we went to Dokuzentrum in the Reichparteitagsgelaende (seriously I had to try several times before being able to pronounce it correctly :-P). It was an impressive experience to spend some time there, it's a must if you want to learn more about German history. We returned back to the old town around noon, had our lunch and then had another museum visit in Germanisches Nationalmuseum which is quite important museum in Germany (too much museum visit that day but Nuernberg has quite a lot of interesting museums indeed).
My last big exploring Germany trip was to Wuerzburg, Bamberg, and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, all of them (as well as Nuernberg ) are in Bayern (Bavaria) area in southern part of Germany, I did a solo trip this time. Wuerzburg was my first destination. First I visited the beautiful Fuerstbischoefliche Rezidenz which was considered as Balthasar Neumann's masterpiece. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the most important Baroque palaces in Germany. Then I walked to the Rathaus area in the city center, had lunch there, and walked trough the promenade of Main river. I ended my walking tour by visiting the Festung Marienberg. I stayed overnight in Wuerzburg that day.
The next day, I took train to Bamberg. Bamberg is already in my wish list destination for some time. Some people recommended me to visit it and I instantly like this small city. It has a scenic old town with nice landscape, no wonder that the old town of Bamberg itself is a UNESCO World Heritage site. I love the view overlooking the Altes Rathaus (old town hall) across the river Regnitz or the frescoes in some buildings (do not remember the names anymore :-P). I continued my walk to the Dom area and decided to head up to the Kloster St. Michael. After that I just walked around the old town, enjoying the atmosphere (was nice weather and only some tourists around). I visited the Naturkundenmuseum (natural history museum) actually to visit its famous Vogelsaal (Birds' hall)which is claimed as one of the most beautiful early classical museum halls in Europe. But unfortunately it was being renovated when I was there :-(. Around late afternoon I left Bamberg for my last destination, Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
I arrived in Rothenburg odT around 8pm, directly to go to the B&B I have booked. It was located inside the old town area so I could not resist the temptation to explore the town directly (it was summer btw, so it's not dark yet). And..yeah Rothernburg made me speechless, it's kind of an open air museum to me :-P (reminds me of Tallinn with its town wall). You'll get the feeling of coming to a medieval time, but you also get the feeling that everyone around you are tourists :-P. The beautiful Rathaus, the pretty houses and the cobbled lanes ...I could not stop taking pictures there. I walked around until the Alte Burg which is actually a garden surrounded by the town wall where we can look over the Tauber river (as its name, the town is located by the Tauber river). The next day I explored the small town more, visited its Reichsstadtmuseum, and basically just enjoying the medieval town including trying its specialty: Schneeball (snow ball), which is quite okay (though Lonely Planet wrote it as one of the worst local specialties in Europe :-P).
I left Rothenburg in the evening...totally satisfied with my three-beautiful-city
trip...
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