Today is Saturday May 19th. When we arrived in Nurnberg we had a couple of hours of free time before we went on our guided hike and so we went into town to explore on our own. We ended up in the toy museum where we spent most of our free time. This museum had stone and wooden toys dating back to the time of the romans. This place was an original toy manufacturing plant that did not convert to making war supplies but rather continued to make non war time type toys. The plant was blacklisted and therefore had a tough time getting raw material for production. Here photos were not allowed so we had to buy post cards.
We returned to the ship for lunch and to prepare for our city walking tour in the afternoon. We were met at the dock by an english speaking german guide who over the next 2 1/2 hrs showed us around the nazi parade grounds and the documentation centre before continuing to show us more of the city centre and town highlights. I must stress that our tour guide eluded several times to just how crazy Hitler and his plans really were. We concluded our guided hike and had another hour of free time which we spent shopping AGAIN. I have not mentioned that during our journey from Amsterdam to Hungary we have passed through 68 locks' some small some as many as 81 ft in lift. Today at around 2200hrs we passed through our last lock going upstream and started dropping back to sea level when we meet the Danube tomorrow morning.
This house with the smile has a working sundial that was fairly accurate.
inside the fortress walls of the nown of Nurnberg
inside HItlers parade ground. He figured that after they won the war that the olympics would always be held in germany and therefore he wanted a stadium capable of holding 400,000 spectators. Crazy I think so.
Entering a lock. This lock will lift the boat 66ft
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