Berching Town Dock
Guten Tag,
Today we crossed “the great divide so are now going ‘down river’ not that we can tell much difference in the speed. But in the locks we now go down rather than up. The locks are ginormous but they have floating bollards, so once you hook on, that’s it. The bollard does all the work. Yippeee.
This is part 2 of our day in Bamberg.
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E T A Hoffmann (creator of the Nutcracker characters) at one point lived and worked in Bamberg managing the theater and giving music lessons. |
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http://imgartists.com/artist/igor_mitoraj Until I looked at the photo on my computer I hadn’t seen the face on the back side; it just looked like empty space. |
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Street Side Little Venice |
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Little Venice water side “The once fisherman’s settlement was lovingly named "Little Venice" .Dating from the Middle Ages, these small, half-timbered houses, standing side-by-side with their balconies and tiny front gardens, line the shores of Regnitz. http://www.bamberg-germany.european-vacation.net/ On the east bank of the left Regnitz low below the old town hall is the former estates of the fishermen, sailors, dyers and tanners. The picturesque buildings are mainly from the 17th and 18th century. The romantic name comes from the Bavarian king Maximilian II, derived from the old buildings on stilts. Thanks to the Locks and flood gates in the south of Bamberg, little Venice is flood free since 1962. http://bambergerbahnen.de/index.php/en/sights-of-bamberg/upper-bridge |
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Buying Birkenstock shoes in Germany is like buying Teva Naot shoes in Israel. I bought Birkenstock in Roanoke, VA; Naot in Herzliya in Israel and ECCO while in Bischberg. ECCO are a Danish company. |
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On the bridge…. Lots of love locks |
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And crazy young men diving off. The one mid-photo asked if I liked to take photos as I was walking past him. My first thought was “what’s he selling.” I said, “I’m a tourist, I take photos.” Then when he climbed over the guard railing I got worried but he and his friend did seem sane.
It was a really hot day and they were just cooling off. |
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Georgia on My Mind but not Almost Heave, West Virginia which is what we’ve heard all around the world. The final day of Bamberg’s wine festival wasn’t so well attended while we were there but it was late afternoon and hot. |
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The current Bamberg Synagogue is housed in what was a Jewish owned silk thread factory. “Rabbi Deusel, who was born in Nuremberg and completed her rabbinical training at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, discovered her Jewish roots by chance. “ http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/58712.html shows the former synagogue which had been built in 1910 but no longer exists. |
