Bamberg, Germany - Amazing Beauty

Our world has so many pearls of beauty and while some are well known, others are less-known. It's my fortune that I sometimes meet wonderful people and in my endeavors to visit my friends wherever they are, I enjoy the unexpected discovery of new exquisite wonders.

So in this episode meet Bamberg, a town with the highest beer breweries per capita rate in Germany, which is already a country with an impressive breweries per capita rate :) While I'm personally not that impressed with the UNESCO World Heritage Site title of Bamberg's old city, the old city itself is very impressive. Many buildings have unique decorations. Here are a few pictures:

Mind that some elements from the drawing thrive to leave it and join our world. Sneaky little angels.

Time to upgrade my rubber ducky collection! :)

The begging meerkat had a writing next to it saying he needs money for a ride. Dana decided to help and got the applause of the creators of the presentation as she was the first! :)

Impressive catholic churches

Sunset was a beauty

Sun setting behind the trees

and my x50 optical zoom camera tries to get a last glimpse of it

I was told this is the "penis church". I'm sure it has another name as well...

Cityscape

Bamberg

Bamberg some more

Old banknotes, including some Israeli ones, featured on a lamp in a bar in Bamberg. Why?

Ferry Supermarket

Here are a few pictures I forgot to include in the previous post about the ferry.



The first one above is of a supermarket inside the ferry and the next indicate the ferry has 7 floors (decks) and carries some truck on it. Quite a big and impressive ferry, at least in standards I was previously used to. A tad amusing is that I didn't really know we'd be taking a ferry till the morning we started hitch hiking. Dana didn't know until a few minutes before. The element of surprise ;)

Copenhagen to Berlin

Hitch hiking is often a lot of fun as you can see:


Actually, it's more fun because of the really cool people you often get to meet while on the road. Admittedly, it can be frustrating when you find yourself stranded for too long somewhere but so far, I've had some wonderful experiences hitch hiking.

The picture above is from the ferry we took while hitch hiking somewhere between Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany. We asked a truck driver at a gas station if he could take us and he agreed. We so met an interesting and wonderful person who eventually even hosted us at his house where he lives with his soon-to-give-birth girlfriend and dog. The night had some fantastic lightning storms as well. Such a great entrance to Germany :)