Bamberg
Claimed to be one of Germany's most beautiful towns, its old town has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site being home to Europe's largest intact old city wall.
The beautiful building that housed the doctors and nurses of the first hospital.
The narrowest house in the city.
The odd shaped house is where visiting professors to the university can stay.
This is one of the university buildings and the door and the structure to the right are over 300 hundred years old but as it is in an UNESCO cited area near building is prohibited but the rest of the building to the left of the door was built in 2014 and is identical in style to the rest of the building.
A detail in a sculture on a building overlooking....
...a Botero culture with my guide dressed in ledenhossen and traditional dress.
A road with umbrellas erected for decoration.
Its not a Star of David but two arrows positioned over each other, one pointing to the sun ad the other pointing to the water, both essential ingredients for producing beer and is a symbol for a brewery. The woodpecker outline above tells the illiterate traveller that this was a brewery.
One of the many fascinating buildings in the city.
A beautiful mural decoration.
A slalom course set up on the river running through the centre of the city.
A richly decorated house overlooking the river.
The entrance to the town hall.
But they couldn't agree on which side of the river to build it so they built it in the middle of the river.
It looks like an old building but it actually houses the city' HEP plant.
The towers of the cathedral.
The Bishops palace with a wing in the shadow.
Another wing was planned to be built to mirror Versailles but was never built but would have destroyed these buildings including the Tithe Barn and a courtyard.
The twin towers of the cathedral.
The Bishop's garden.
The Tithe Barn in the old courtyard.
We returned to the ship and saw more traffic such as this device to allow one boat to push another.
But it didn't have a car...just a small crane and a dinghy.
Then we entered a different type of lock with gates that swing up to the horizontal.
They sang back to vertical after we had passed...
...to close...
...and we were lifted up to the next level of the canal...
... but this was a single gate that sank into a recess to allow us to pass...
... and we cruised all night and woke up in a tree lined section of the canal that passed through the Black Forest.
A detail in a sculture on a building overlooking....
...a Botero culture with my guide dressed in ledenhossen and traditional dress.
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