Zo, N?rnberg then?

[Logan Mountstuart]

I've always loved Germany but I've hardly ever been. My life has been hugely France - oriented. As its the only way of safely getting out of Holland because Covid, I'm currently doing a trip through the South, mostly walking in remoter areas, but now I find myself with 2 days in N?rnberg.

I've just done the Documentation Centre at the rally grounds this morning, which was very well done and interesting.

What I really want to know is the best way to locally stuff my face and augment my suddenly emerging beer belly, both with what, and where? Regional specialities to the fore please.

Oh and interesting stuff to do, of course. Many thanks in advance for any help.

[Nefertiti2]

Documetnation center is excellent would recommend the Arts and Design museum, (New Museum) German National Museum, Toy Museum (probably- Nueremberg was the cengre of toy manufacture, D?rer.

Bratwurst obviously. Lebkuchen,
Lots of nice places to go by train not far away.S Bahn links are fantastic

Furth- once a big Jewish centre
Erlangen
Up unto the Fr?nkische Schweiz they have good wine, too

[ursus arctos]

The DB Railway Museum is also very good

[Capybara]

The DB Railway Museum is also very good

I was just about to say that - if it's your thing it's well worth a visit, and you'll probably need three hours even to start to do it justice. Up by Tiergaertner Tor there's plenty of restaurants and bars, as well as a brewery whose bar is worth a visit, though obviously I don't know what the restrictions are like at the moment.

[Logan Mountstuart]

That's a start. Last night I found a fantastic restaurant and had Nuremburg sausage soup and Sauerbraten with potato dumplings. Delicious. And I like the little, local sausages here. The people all seem very nice, although I'm learning this city has a rather chequered history.

Off out beer inspecting now.

Am planning the DB museum for tomorrow morning

[Duncan Gardner]

Adding to the above, Bamberg is nice. There's a statue of Hank Kissinger at the football ground in Fuerth

[sw2borshch]

Is there? I was obviously so hungover I missed it.

[Logan Mountstuart]

8 N?rnberger bratwurst, sauerkraut and horseradish for dinner. Should have had 12. And the beer of choice is Zirndorfer Keller.

It was also de quite poignant to drive past Darmstadt a few days ago and think about G-Man 's Grandfather. I'll have to check out exactly which town he was from as I stayed really near there in deepest Hesse.

[caja-dglh]

Rent a car and hammer it round the ring.

[Logan Mountstuart]

How do you do the @Mr. X thing?

[Logan Mountstuart]

Rent a car and hammer it round the ring.

I assiduously do not throw my towels in the bath every morning, and make my own recycling bin in my hotel rooms, and I drive for a living. I do History and beer on holiday.

[caja-dglh]

Logan Mountstuart You type @UserName and about 3 characters or so in let the computer process and find the person, which you then click on to establish the link.

[ad hoc]

The problem with what you had os that the user name has a hyphen G-Man

[Logan Mountstuart]

Cheers, Andy.

[Nefertiti2]

Rent a car and hammer it round the ring.

Nuerburgring is in Nuerbutg and nowhere near Nuernburg

one has two n‘s and is a city. Key tEuropean trading city as it was beteeen the Rhine and the Danube so basically was known for spices , textiles and cash - then the first German railway then Nazi rallies

the other is near the French border

[Logan Mountstuart]

Ironically, the area 100m in front of where Hitler stood at the rallies is now demarcated as a start grid for motor racing.

German history is just too fucking immense to comprehend really. I'm trying to watch the football now but my head is full of the outrageous, ridiculous events that took place 3km away from where I'm sitting.

It reminds me of the time when I visited a friend in West Berlin in 1988 and I was at a bar party in Kreutsberg where people were dancing in their pants on tables, and you could go outside, walk 20m, climb some stairs and look at men with search lights, carrying machine guns 100m away.

Yet their society is so educated and exemplary, really. What a country.

[ursus arctos]

There is a minor sports car circuit that essentially goes around the parade grounds, with the tribune serving as seating. It isn't used often, bit has to be extraordinarily weird when it is.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Extraordinarily crumbly, I'd say.

Apparently the Americans made much use of the space for motorsport and other mirth in the years after the war.

[caja-dglh]

Nuerburgring is in Nuerbutg and nowhere near Nuernburg

one has two n‘s and is a city. Key tEuropean trading city as it was beteeen the Rhine and the Danube so basically was known for spices , textiles and cash - then the first German railway then Nazi rallies

the other is near the French border

Well isn't that a thing. Given the character error I took a guess.

So it is nowhere near by and Logan doesn't want to do anything to do with cars anyway. I will ask for a testimonial for my recommendation business.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Well isn't that a thing. Given the character error I took a guess.

So it is nowhere near by and Logan doesn't want to do anything to do with cars anyway. I will ask for a testimonial for my recommendation business.

Anyone who doesn't ignore me on Otf is a friend of mine, cala.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Caje,. German beer etc...

[Duncan Gardner]

G-Man's granda's home village was Fischbachstal, about 20km South of Darmstadt. My own gaff Breuberg about the same distance to the east

[Logan Mountstuart]

I was in Gras - Ellenbach. All pretty close by. It was very like how his Grandad described it in his memoirs.

[Felicity, I guess so]

When we inter railed there in the 80s the rally site had a fenced-off bit for USAF personnel sports. So spent ages trying to get a photo of the tribune/Nazi remnantswith a US flag

[Stumpy Pepys]

I go to Nuernberg fairly regularly, as Fraeulein Pepys has friends there. But I'm not up with tourism--I do local things with local people.



Sorry, I'll rephrase that. People take me to nice places and I don't make a note of where they are.

The Nuerburgring is somewhere near Bonn, isn't it?