The Steeple Came Alive
Like our previous river boat cruise, we are well taken care of, especially Karen as she continues with her Vegan diet. Viking is very accommodating. Each morning she meets with the Maitre'd and they go over the menu and, along with the head chef, they create a Vegan version for lunch and dinner - a service you'd never find on a large ship.
Today we toured Nuremberg, a city that was nearly destroyed in WWII. When it was rebuilt, they passed laws requiring the buildings to look a lot like the origional buildings.
At noon this church steeple came alive. At the top there are two figures ringing the bells. Next as you go down, you see a drummer, bell ringer, violin player and flute player above the king sitting on the thrown with kings walking around praising him. Then below are two men playing horns.
Although Mike and Carla opted for the WWII tour, we decided to take the city tour where we saw the same sights they stopped at, only from the comfort of the Viking bus. This is the inside of the Congress Hall that Hitler started to build but ran out of money and men to complete it because he had to concentrate on the war. It was modeled after the coliseum in Rome. We also saw Hitler's rally field where he assembled half a million Nazis during the years before the war got really intense. We then saw the Justice center where the famous Nuremberg trials were held after the war.
Ric joined us but Vicki stayed onboard to rest her knee and back after spending all day with us yesterday. She said it was not only relaxing, but fun to watch the 'bucket brigade' re-supply the ship. Here are the many bottles of water that are needed as well as cases of orange juice. They give us each a bottle of water whenever we leave the ship and we have a decantor in our room that is refreshed 2 times a day.
After the tour Karen and Carla met in the town center for lunch and shopping while the guys went back to the ship where they met up for lunch with Vicki. Another beautiful day here in Baveria.
After dinner we continued on the man-made portion of the canal. Here the canal became a viaduct, passing over a road. You can see the small wake from our ship in the top photo. It was very exciting to be cruising over a highway. Along this portion of the cruise, we went through a lock that raised us 50-ft and another that raised us 80-ft. Now those were some deep locks bringing us to 1332 feet altitude since we left Amsterdam one week ago.
Today we toured Nuremberg, a city that was nearly destroyed in WWII. When it was rebuilt, they passed laws requiring the buildings to look a lot like the origional buildings.
At noon this church steeple came alive. At the top there are two figures ringing the bells. Next as you go down, you see a drummer, bell ringer, violin player and flute player above the king sitting on the thrown with kings walking around praising him. Then below are two men playing horns.
Although Mike and Carla opted for the WWII tour, we decided to take the city tour where we saw the same sights they stopped at, only from the comfort of the Viking bus. This is the inside of the Congress Hall that Hitler started to build but ran out of money and men to complete it because he had to concentrate on the war. It was modeled after the coliseum in Rome. We also saw Hitler's rally field where he assembled half a million Nazis during the years before the war got really intense. We then saw the Justice center where the famous Nuremberg trials were held after the war.
Ric joined us but Vicki stayed onboard to rest her knee and back after spending all day with us yesterday. She said it was not only relaxing, but fun to watch the 'bucket brigade' re-supply the ship. Here are the many bottles of water that are needed as well as cases of orange juice. They give us each a bottle of water whenever we leave the ship and we have a decantor in our room that is refreshed 2 times a day.
After the tour Karen and Carla met in the town center for lunch and shopping while the guys went back to the ship where they met up for lunch with Vicki. Another beautiful day here in Baveria.
After dinner we continued on the man-made portion of the canal. Here the canal became a viaduct, passing over a road. You can see the small wake from our ship in the top photo. It was very exciting to be cruising over a highway. Along this portion of the cruise, we went through a lock that raised us 50-ft and another that raised us 80-ft. Now those were some deep locks bringing us to 1332 feet altitude since we left Amsterdam one week ago.
Sometime tomorrow we will leave the Main-Danube Canal and head downhill where we start cruising the Danube River.
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