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High on Heidelberg Castle

when you’re traveling to Germany Heidelberg it’s definitely one of the cities you should visit at the castle is very interesting. So remember when you get in this area make sure you get high on Heidelberg Castle.

Royalcrest
The Royalcrest
Entrance gate
Main entrance gate
River below when you are high on Heidelberg Castle
Beautiful views of the city below and the river
Nice view
One of the best views when you are high on Heidelberg Castle
Map
a good detailed map
Symbolism
Very iconic and important symbolism for the times when they were set on the entrance gate here
Symbols
Lions, orbs and the Shield
City clock
This is the old clock in the city center
City Plaza
The main city Plaza
Beer keg, a giant one
The giant Heidelberg beer keg
Dispenser
This is where they dispensed the beer
Chapel
You have to have a chapel in a castle
Heidelberg Castle pipe organ
Church pipe Oregon
Desk and chair
A very old desk and chair
Ornate hallway
And extremely ordinate hallway
Detailed ceiling
The ceiling of the hallway. Look at the detail
Room entrance
And ordinate room entrance
Hebrew
It was interesting to see Hebrew here. Obviously there was a lot of respect for the people who helped build and manage the castle
Beer pump
The great beer pump
Banquet hall
The banquet hall.
Marks in the stone
Builders’ marks in the stone
The old outside wall
This shows the old Castle wall on the outside which was built many hundreds of years ago
Cast model
The model of the castle as it is today
Complete model
Another model of the castle when it was complete
Great Frederick
This guy brought the castle to its peak architecture
Pharmacy inside the castle
There was a pharmacy inside the castle
Medicine creation laboratory
Were they concocted the medicines
Old brand
This is a very old brand
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Walking Germany

When Walking Germany remember to look at everything and investigate interesting shops for some fascinating things for sale. But things to do are to watch and talk to people. You will meet some very interesting people wherever you go in Germany and they might be tourists or migrants.

dino insel
Bill Maher talks about “Insel” a lot. Well I found this advertising for the Dino versions
wheat ber
This is a very nice wheat beer
singers
The volunteer Heidelberg wandering chorus group
cheering on walking germany
Here they are cheering on some local business.
old sign
Nice old sign
church walking gemany
A beautiful church inside
3D cross
An unusual cross display
castle
Heidelberg castle from the plaza
statue
Dressed like an ancient Celt
bridge
Old bridge
walking area
Relaxing walking area
Gate
Old city entranceway
beer time
Singers having a beer
cruise
A river cruise
Toilet
This is what kids call a toilet.
Favorite cheese
My favorite cheese
Scary FIGUre
This could be very scary for a little child going to church
Not so scary figure
Not quite as scary from the front
Stained glass window
An interesting modern stained glass window
Ancient crests
Different districts represented with their ancient crestS
Folding Art
Church art unfolding
Cathedral model
Model of the cathedral
Giveaways
This is everything I gave away after pulling it out out of storage.
Spaghetti
Another wonderful spaghetti with pepper and oil with pine nuts
Vespa shop car
These are produced by the Vespa
Landshut pizza
a very tasty pizza in downtown Landshut
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Try Trier Germany

I recommend to try Trier Germany for several reasons. You will love some of the old architecture, the location next to the border with Luxembourg and the surrounding beauty. A one or 2 day visit would be sufficient.

palace
The palace
palace
Try trier germany
Try trier germany
Depot
An old station or depot
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Relaxing Landshut

Relaxing Landshut is close to Munich and a less expensive community to park youself. Enjoy some of the very nice Italian and German restaurants here especially Ristorante Rossini at the foot of the castle. The make the best Olive Oil/Peperoncino spaghetti I have ever had. The recipe includes pine nuts and next to you on the veranda outside is some fresh basil growing you can use to garnish the flavors.

With a cigar
Enjoying a cigar in the Plaza
campari spritz
The European hit, the campari spritz with a new cigar offering by Toscano, the Robusto.
motorcycle group
Law enforcement officers (one here I met) formed a motorcycle touring group called the Punishers. It was a very nice and interesting discussion.
cappuccino
Of course a cappuccino in the morning
river view
River view
walking town
Beautiful walking town
obama hat
My Obama hat on it’s Last trip. The brim disintegrated after 16 years
preparation for event
Getting ready for a holiday event
River in relaxing Landshut
side dish in relaxing Landshut
A side dish
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Leipzig – Germany

OK, back to Germany. I wanted to stop over in Leipzig so here are some photos from a Sunday when everything is closed.

The church behind his statue is where he used to be the conductor. Here is what a description inside the church stated. “From 1723 until 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach was the highest ranking musician in Leipzig as Director Musices Lipsiensis and cantor at St. Thomas. Then, as now, the cantor at St. Thomas was an employee of the city. As part of his official duties, Bach was responsible for the musical education of the boys at St. Thomas School and for the music in services at the two main churches – St. Thomas and St. Nicholas – as well as the New Church (later called St. Matthew) and St. Peter’s Church. With his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach, née Wilcke, Bach lived in the old St. Thomas School on the churchyard. He went to this church for confession and to receive Holy Communion.
During his first years in office in Leipzig, Bach created new cantatas on a weekly basis – about 150 compositions in total. 30 more can be traced to later times. And these numbers do not include Bach’s Passions, cantatas on the annual occasion of welcoming a new city council or numerous compositions for special events. Bach also presented the works of other composers in the Leipzig churches as well as his own reworkings of some of them. The first performances of the St. Matthew Passion (1727) and the lost St. Mark Passion (1731) took place at St. Thomas Church, the St. John Passion (1724) and the Christmas Oratorio (1734/35) were premiered at St. Nicholas.
The interior of St. Thomas Church as it existed in Bach’s times has been removed almost entirely. This includes the two organs. The oldest parts of the large organ had been made in 1511. The smaller organ even dated back to 1489. Still remaining from Bach’s times are several pieces of Communion equipment, the portraits of superintendents in the choir, as well as the Löbelt cross and the baptismal font.
St. Thomas Church
From an island in Thailand? Or is it cold in Japan?
This kid had a VR headset on to control his helicopter.
Spaghetti Aglio olio. It was pretty good
This restaurant seems to have pretty high standards
Something to learn when in Europe
This little three squiggly mark above the door is the same I saw in the Pictish Tablet in the Highlands of Scotland and also in Ireland and also in Japan.
It seems his university was in this town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

It’s Sunday so not many people
“Markt” in the main Square
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Regensburg & Göttingen Germany

Regensburg

there are some really interesting and beautiful cities in Germany. These are just two of them.

I was waiting months to try this pork specialty at a good restaurant. This was very nice
On the way back down the street we had coffee here on the second floor. Very nice view and relaxing

Gottingen

something for everyone
I have to have a Campari spritz sometimes with a Toscanello
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lubeck – Germany

On the left is the old city entrance gate
St. Petri
I was fascinated by the skeleton
This was one of the most interesting pipe organs I ever saw.
Maybe this is why. It was originally built in 1504
Special people were buried in the floor which you can also see in churches in England also where many of the royalty are buried underneath the floors of cathedrals
A building memorializing Willy Brandt
Some of the local cocktails
What would an afternoon be without a Campari spritz
A very old building by the river
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Dacau Munich – a dark past

I did not realize how close this prison camp was to Munich but when I saw on the map I had to visit. Below is a link to information about this camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

The famous gate
The entrance where everyone came in
This place is massive. I decided not to walk around the whole area. Visiting the one main museum building and maybe one or two others is sufficient for the history. The rest is a walking tour.
These dots represent supporting sub camps. When I saw this map I found it a little difficult to believe after seeing even the massiveness of this main camp.
This photo above and the photo below are the infirmary areas which were also massive. But the infirmaries were not just for healing people they were for human experimentation as well.
Probably not a relative but the closest to where my family lived. I need to keep looking in other places.
This massive book contains every registered prisoner.
This poster was at the train station
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nuremberg – The court and the city

This is the room where the criminal court for war crimes against the second world war government was held. It was built specifically for the trials
Is there any other good name for a hotdog stand?
Above the door you can see the individual panels of the different districts defined by the Lords or the church. This isSt. Lawrence  basilica
An ancient artwork
Again the coat of arms of the different fiefdoms
A campari spritz which so many people seem to be drinking in the afternoon and the evening
Different from a Campari spritz but you get to know how they are made
The Hauptmarkt|
Schöner Brunnen
Iconic fountain with Gothic church spire
A very tasty spaghetti Bolognese
This just strikes me as funny. It’s a Vietnamese restaurant advertising Japanese Ramen and avocados which are so popular, plentiful and cheap in Laos. Most of the Asian food restaurants we have seen in Europe are run either by Vietnamese or Chinese immigrants
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
You see these extended rooms with windows and I was not able to ask anybody why they’re built this way but I suspect it’s for watching what’s going on
This one has a night in shining armor watching out for everyone
The castle
The view from the castle and the photo below explains the different sites
This was a very delicious orange sherbet with some fruit and …. just so delicious
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Landshut – a few notes

Landshut is a very interesting and beautiful place to visit. The old buildings, the rivers and all of the services that make it a very livable place as well. Here are just a few parting notes.

You can tell from this I like wheat beers in Germany. This is a very nice one
I found this brewery to be exceptional
On the way to the castle, going up the steps, you will pass Ristorante Rossini. It is exceptional food and the service is more than you could expect from any restaurant. Just look at the fresh basil picked from the garden. In addition they are growing basil on the table so you can pick it off and put it in your food. This pizza was very delicious and the Vegetarian ravioli with the beautiful cream sauce, almost like a four cheese, was very rich but not overly.
Even here you see hang gliding
The pizza at Pizzeria Pomodoro & Mozzarella is also exceptional. We ate here three times it was so good.
The neighboring town of Freising had some amazing history associated with one of the popes, the retired one, along with some important political stories for Bavaria.
There is constant improvement in the city. It’s such a nice place to walk around.