Nuremberg; Saturday, 02 April, 2022

After breakfast in the hotel I headed out into town to explore – getting no further than the opposite side of the road as I came across the open-top sightseeing bus, albeit with the roof very firmly on given it was snowing all day. I took the tour for the full 2 hour circuit around the city and out to the Documentation Centre on the outskirts of town. Back in the city centre I quickly popped back to the hotel to freshen up and then managed to catch the next departure – same physical bus – back round for the city centre tour, hopping off at the Hauptmarkt.

I was just in time in the Hauptmarkt to join the landtrain tour which took in more of the city centre – being able to get into areas that a double deck bus couldn’t reach – so between the two tours I had a good overview of the city.

Back in the Hauptmarkt I had a wander around the small Easter Market that was in place on the square. It wasn’t quite the world famous Christmas Market, which was the original reason for booking the trip back in 2019 to attend the 2020 version – but then Covid got in the way, and the hotel would only allow the booking to be pushed to April 2022.

After looking round the market – and sampling the Nuremberger Bratwurst – I headed inside the Frauenkirche, the large church that dominates the rear of the market square to have a look around inside there, before wandering over to the much larger and more impressive St Sebalds church just slightly up from the market place.

I then went for a long wander through the narrow streets and lanes of the city centre, taking in many of the sights of the compact city centre that still sits within it’s medieval city walls. I eventually found my way down to the southern end of the city centre, and just beyond the city walls the DB Museum and Museum of Communication. The first ever commercial passenger railway service in what is today Germany (though at the time it was still the Kingdom of Bavaria) ran in 1835 from Nuremberg to Fürth, with the engine powering the service being designed and built by George and Robert Stephenson in Newcastle upon Tyne. So it makes sense for one of the main railway museums in the country to be in the birthplace of German Rail.

After taking in both museums I headed back to the hotel to drop some stuff off before heading out for dinner and then making my way up to the castle once sun had set to take in some views over the city at night.

With a suitably large number of photos taken I headed back down to the hotel to turn in for the night.