Nuremberg is the
largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of
Franconia. It is also the second largest
city in the German state of Bavaria. The
city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest. In the north lies Knoblauchsland (which
translates to “garlic land”), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural
landscape.
My room has a view of the Spittlertor forming part of Nuremberg's Altstadt city walls.
Today I spent a few hours walking around the Altstadt despite it pouring down with rain, this possibly being the tail end of Storm
Pia. My first priority was to find
stamps and postcards. The hotel didn't
have the number of stamps I wanted so I walked along Nuremberg's Altstadt city walls to find the post office. The
post office would only sell stamps in strips of ten so I will be sending a few
more postcards this trip.
I then went back into the old city which has many lovely
old buildings.
There were some Christmas market stalls in the Altstadt but they
were not well frequented because of the weather. Many of the stalls were shut.
By the time I bought postcards my trousers were soaked
due to the rain was running off my coat.
The chilly wind didn’t improve matters so I headed back to my hotel to
change and have something to eat. I had my first
glass of German beer which the waiter was proud to tell me was one of the beers
brewed for the Munich beer festival. It was good.
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