Nuremberg for Thanksgiving

Zeppelin field

Court room where the nuremberg trials were held

happy subway travelers

Talia insists these decorations were dalekanium

The nuremberg Christmas angel

Arks!

Her majesty and King Ludwig's fancy train

one-man train travel

writing with nibs, bamboo, feathers

Day one, some of us are still smiling!

We went to Nuremberg to see the opening of the Christmas market.  There is a big to-do in the main market square where the Christmas angel appears on the balcony of the church and welcomes everyone. There is music and singing and thousands of people all crushing in to try and see.  Luckily we didn't loose any kids in the crush and the only damages were my sore neck the next morning from trying to see what was going on.

We spent two nights and got the city card so we split our days between exploring museums and the market.  The card made it easy to catch the subway or whatever we wanted to get around.  It was No's favorite part of the trip, riding the subway.  We saw the DB (train) museum, art museums, a toy museum, the Albrecht Durer house (first mass-produced etchings) the Nuremberg city museum, the courthouse where the first ever international court tried the heads of the National Socialist party as well as the Nazi party congressional hall and the zeppelin grounds.  It is a lovely city, even in the cold and grey weather we had.