Regensburg

We left our friends in Nuremberg and headed south to Regensburg, a Bavarian town on the Danube River. The river was flooded, probably due to snow melt from the big storms they had a couple weeks back.

It's a nice place with narrow streets and very few cars in the Old Town. Originally, this was a Roman outpost, so there are lots of places where the original stone walls were incorporated into the town buildings.

There's an old bridge that crosses the Danube that was built in the 12th century, connecting the old and new towns.

And the good news is they have great Christmas Markets.. We enjoyed wandering the markets munching on sausages washed down with Glühwein.Read more