Streets of Regensburg

Regensburg is another UNESCO city, or at least, the Altstadt is. By this point, we were so out of it, we missed a lot of the highlights. It was raining on and off, at times the sun was out. There was a festival going on, and the streets were packed. We stopped to watch some fire jugglers, then moved on.

Things we didn't see that I wanted to: the Roman gate, the oldest wurst house in Germany, and the Steinerne Brücke, the oldest standing stone bridge in Germany (12th Century). We did stand on the bridge and took pictures from it, we just didn't go down to the water and take pictures of it. We skipped the wurst house because we were kind of ready for a break from German food, but in hindsight, I regret that.

So a couple posts of pictures from around Regensburg. The city is very well preserved, because somehow it completely escaped bombing and artillery in World War II. We're back to the pale colored buildings of southern Bavaria. There was no half-timber to be seen anywhere.

Starting with some shots of the outside of the cathedral, which was covered in a lot of scaffolding, we moved out towards the Danube, then back. Oh, and in the picture we have, the Danube is definitely looking kind of blue. Included is the famous Goliath Haus, and those fire jugglers.Read more