Nurnberg to Regensburg

Yesterday I arrived in Regensburg but first I want to say that I did some more things in Nurnberg. We were there for three nights.

In Nurnberg we went to the Imperial Castle at the top of the city that was very old. We also visited the old Rathaus (town hall) and the main church, St Sebald, in the middle of the town, right near the main Christmas market.  We walked along the old city walls. The town has a river that runs through the middle. We walked across a really old covered bridge and saw some ducks in the water.

We had dinner at the Christmas market and we got Bratwurst, corn on a cob and a banana kebab covered with chocolate.  I ordered the food in German and the lady thought I was actually from Germany and started talking to me!

It took us just under an hour to get to Regensburg. We went on an ICE train. I sat on my own 2-seated table and watched The Simpsons and played asphalt 8. We are having a great time in Regensburg we are stay in a cool place that has a balcony.

On the day we arrived, my dad’s cousins, onkel Thomas and tante Gisella, came from Munich to meet us. It took them 70 minutes to get from Munich to Regensburg.

We went to the Christmas market at the Thurn and Taxis Palace that you had to pay to get in. I ate a bratwurst that had cheese inside the sausage, it was delicious. We saw the Christmas angel doing a speech about how beautiful the place was and there was a man playing a song on the trumpet. My mum bought herself a steak sandwich and I had a bite and it was yummy.

Today we walked around Regensburg. We saw the world heritage centre in an old salt store, the stone bridge that was built in 1135, St Peter’s cathedral that took 600 years to build, the old town hall, Porta Praetoria which is a Roman arch built 179 AD and Goliath house.

 I am learning more here than if I were at school (just joking).

Dresden to Nurnberg

We spent three days in Dresden. We stayed in a hotel right near a church called the frauenkirche. You could see it from our window. The church was bombed in WWII but rebuilt by the people in Dresden about 20 years ago. They raised money to do it. There was a Christmas market right in front of our hotel too. It was a good Christmas market because you could hear people singing in a choir and a trumpet band playing Christmas carols on top of one of the stalls. They even played in the rain!

We ate lots of quarkballchen which are like small donut balls. They are so yummy. We also had some bratwurst, flammkuchen (like a German pizza with sour cream, cheese, bacon and onions), hot chocolate and gluwein.

We kept finding Christmas markets everywhere we went. They were all different from each other. They even had a really old fashioned one that mum said looked like it was from the Middle ages. Dresden has the oldest Christmas market in Germany.

We went to a dairy that was in the Guiness book of records for the most beautiful dairy. We had a cheese platter that had German cheese which you could choose from German or French. The German one was really yummy.

Now that I am in Nurnberg (land of lebkuchen) We had the the best lebkuchen I ever had in my lifetime and I was surprised they didn't have krapfenn which are German donuts.

We have a great room to stay in, it is a holiday inn but it is like a big hotel.

It took us 4 hours and a bit to get here by train. It was alright except that I vomited once but it didn't matter.

Photos from Berlin

 Dad, me and uncle Christian

 The Dom

 Brandenburg Gate

 The Reichstag (parliament)

 The Freedom Angel (Victory Tower)

 Berlin zoo

 Sony centre

 Hansa studio

Hansa studio

 The wall

My car!

Photos from Hannover

 At Schloss Marienburg

 With Onkel Heinz at the Hannover Rathaus (town hall)

 With Tante Irmchen

 At Hildesheim Christmas Market

At Hildesheim

Yummy dinner

Photos from Hamburg

 Having a hot chocolate at the Christmas Market in Hamburg

 Christmas music

 My aunt Nicole and cousins Mia and Zoe

 Me, Zoe and Mia (and teddy)

Dad with his cousin Nicole and nieces Zoe and Mia

On the way to Hannover

Berlin

The second day in Berlin we went for a big walk. We first went to Museum Island. It’s a tiny island in the middle of the river. We then went to the Dom. The Dom is a big church. After that we went to the freedom angel and my Dad and I went up to the top on stairs and it was like 25 floors and my legs were hurting.  At the end of the day we went to a Christmas Market and an old church that was bombed in WWII.

The next day we went to Hansa studios and it was more fun than I expected it to be. Some of dads favourite bands recorded in Hansa studios like David Bowie.

My mum dad and I played on the piano in Hansa studio. My dad and I went on a little man made snow mountain and went on a tyre thing down it. We also went on a really long walk for 5 hours it was tiring. We went on the hop on hop of bus and we were at the top for the whole time it was a double decker bus it was fun. We saw the last parts of the Berlin Wall and it was covered in graffiti.  

Today we arrived in Dresden and we went on an EC train it was fun. When we arrived we went to a restaurant and had some German food for lunch.

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