Bayern Ticket

There is this great train ticket here called the Bayern ticket - 30 Euro for 5 people for any Regional train in Bavaria. It's a winner. We decided to go to Rothenburg ob der Tauber on Sunday. While we were at the train station on Sunday morning, we decided to go to Nuernburg as well! So Markus, Michaela, and myself took a day trip there with the Bayern ticket! The train ride was 3 and a half hours, but one of the crossword puzzels I brought took us an hour and a half, so the ride flew by! Unfortunately, when we got there, it was raining. But the town was still beautiful! It is a medieval town that has been really well preserved. It looked like walking in a fantasy. It was a stereotypiclal idealic old style German town setting. This is one of the few towns that was not damaged badly in the WWII. There is a surrounding wall blockade that people can still walk on! So that was the first thing we did! Then, we went to a museum of torture that was filled with what they used to torture people with back then... We also went into a Christmas history museum which cheered up our spirits a bit. The town is really well known for their Christmas Markets and this museum and shop that hand makes everything in there. It was so adorable. We had a nice meal together and took a break from walking. Before we hopped back on the train to Nuernburg, we bought snowballs, some yummy baked goods that look kind of like a pie crust twisted up into a ball.

This is in the city center in Rothenburg.

This is the view from the Imperial Castle on a hill in Nueremburg.

This is the St. Lorenz Church in the city center at Nueremburg.

We didn't stay too long in Nuermburg. We mainly just walked through the city center and to the city castle! This town is also really popular during Christmas time because they have the biggest Christmas Market. I came during the wrong season!

Michaela and I have our last months in Munich wish list and these two stops were priotrities on it! So, thanks to the Bayern ticket and Markus' great navigational skills, we were able to cross those off our list!