Day 10

We got off to an early start leaving our hotel in Berlin at 8:00 AM with a 6:00 AM wakeup call. We then drove about 2 hours until a rest stop for a comfort stop and quick snack and then back on the bus for another 1 ½ hours where most of us bought a lunch before arriving in Nuremburg for an hour walking tour of the city.

Along the way you can see that we stopped for snacks and obviously we found an American chain. :-)

We first stopped at the famous court house where the Nuremburg War Crime trials were held at the end of the war.

Then we would make the walking tour of the old town, or new old town as a lot of the city somehad to be rebuilt after the war because if the extensive damage caused by allied bombing.

After the walking tour we took a short bus ride out to the Nazi rally site which is now a great museum showing the effectiveness of propaganda used during the war. This was the site of the torch lite rallies that you’ve seen in the documentaries where Hitler rallied the German people. The museum was a blend of artifacts, photos and walking in the buildings where it happened.

Although its been a long day travel wise we’ve had a good day and needed some down time before hitting Munich where tomorrow we will visit Dachau, the Jewish concentration camp and will spend about 2 ½ hours there.

Of course we have dinner still to look forward to as I’m anticipating very little time this evening to work on the blog I’ve taken my laptop on the bus and have been working on previous days photos and writing today’s entry hoping that I’ll be able to post this evening. As you can see we "got er done" this evening and you can see the beer hall where we ate and the group at the table.

We continue to move along with very few problems and the kids are having a great time although I am beginning to see some weariness on some from time to time.
Sorry that everyone is not in a photo this evening but we are all fine and well.