Sunday 21st December 2025

Berlin to Nuremburg

Up early and bundled into a cab by 730 to ensure we got to the main station on time to catch our train to Nuremberg.

We were catching up with Sophie, Jake snd Sully for the lead up and then final celebration of Xmas in Munich , which might not be white looking at the forecast.

Seems Jane and I used up our snow allocation in Scandinavia.

It was a seamless process to get onto the train and spend a 3 hour trip mostly surrounded by fog. When it wasn’t foggy the German countryside showed up in all its green glory.

Off the train and greeted by the Adeladians and it was off to drop the bags and start the journey in Nuremburg

Like every place visited the Xmas rush is on with streets swarming with visitors and locals. No more evident than right outside our hotel which abuts the market precinct.

Our first unusual event of the day was a parade of hundreds of people dressed in traditional uniforms, carrying banners and all wearing hats off different colours and of course carrying mugs of gluhwein.

We found out that it’s an annual event where members of various university sorority and fraternity groups march on the 4 Sundays before Xmas. Loved one of the guys in uniform including a sword and scabbard used the latter as a cup holder.

They certainly turned a few heads as did the weird statue whose essence couldn’t be captured with a single photo. Shame I haven’t worked out how to add a video.

For those that loved smoked salmon our next port of call was the cats pyjamas.

we popped back to the hotel to do a mini train trip around down which showed us the highlights and gave us an idea where to jump off the bus tomorrow.

This place has an amazing history, not all of it glamorous.

We had dinner in a packed restaurant with pork knuckle everybod’s fare.

A late night wander through the market with a hluhwein to finish of our day.