Nuremberg; Wednesday, 23 December, 2009

I checked out of the hotel, chucked my bags into a left luggage locker and hopped on the train out of Nuremberg for a day-trip to Bamberg.

I had a long wander around the city centre taking in the sights, before climbing up to what I thought was the Cathedral, it looked impressive enough to be it. Instead it turned out to be the Frauenkirche, so after looking around that I had to come back down the hill and climb up a different one to get to the Cathedral.

The Domplatz is an impressive site, with the cathedral on one side and the imperial palace on the other. I kind of got distracted by the palace, so went and had a look around that before heading back over to the Cathedral for a look around.

I wandered back through the town, taking in Kliene Venedig (Little Venice) and the Old Town Hall before it was time to head back to the station to get the train back to Nuremberg.

Unfortunately, the snow of the previous few days was still playing havoc with the German trains. My train arrived on time, but then had to wait in Bamburg station for the delayed Inter City service from the Wernemunde (I think on the very north coast) to Munich. To be fair to it, a train that had covered the best part of 1,000KM was only 55 minutes late, but it did have to add a delay onto mine, which got a little later all the way along the line, and so it was gone 3:30 when I got back into the Hauptbahnhof.

I had originally planned to wander back up to the Christmas markets for a final Gluhwein and Bratwurst, but a quick calculation made it obvious that I could, but I would then be removing any safety margin for getting to the airport. Normally this wouldn’t have given me any cause for concern in Germany, but on the past few days I didn’t want to risk it, so instead, I wandered down to the left luggage lockers, picked up my stuff and headed back to the airport and my flight home.

Weather

Heavy Sleet Sunny Intervals
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Mild (0-10C, 32-50F)
6ºC/43ºF