Sitting in a brewery that is 70 years older than Australia. The history in Europe is hard to comprehend sometimes. Last night we ate dinner in a brewery 6 and 1/2 centuries old!
Today we visited the cathedral of Bamberg which holds the remains of a pope - the only cathedral north of the Alps to do so. I am not a fan of religion. I dislike any institution that segregates people, incites hate and in turn violence and does so in the name of god - any god. But I absolutely love churches, cathedrals, abbeys, basilicas and all the beauty that comes with them - the architecture, art and most especially the ritual.
We climbed a hill and walked around the grounds of a castle that held captive a bear for 30 years from 1952 to 1982. We then took a bus down to the Abbey to find that it was closed due to the front of the building threatening to fall off at any moment. Bamberg is one of the towns that was now bombed in WW2 - and therefore has some fantastic historical buildings....even if some of them are now falling apart.
A further 2 breweries also visited for lunch and dinner. Woohoo.
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| view of old court house |
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| GB on the way to Altenburg |
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| Altenburg |
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| Cute little church around the corner of our hotel |
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| The bear enclosure at Altenburg |
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| Greifenklau Brauhaus |
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