Terry and Sooz's Travels: Sunday, June 2, 2023

Today we played tourist, walking through Old Town Bamberg, never getting on the motorcycle. The weather was beautiful, mostly sunny in the 60s and low 70s. We decided to not have breakfast at the hotel and instead got going pretty early for breakfast at Simitçi Cafe. It's a Turkish restaurant and we had a breakfast platter that was delicious. I'm not sure all of what was offered, but it had a scrambled eggs mix with tomatoes, 2 types of chutney-like mix, cheeses, fruit and vegetables. Last night we had a great dinner at an Italian restaurant and enjoyed dinner tonight at a Greek restaurant. Kind of interesting that the 3 best meals we have had in a while have been in Turkish, Italian and Greek restaurants in Germany.

We crossed the Regnitz River and Canal (that eventually feed into the Danube River) and saw some impressive wall art and water management structures, thank you.

Check out the picture below.

The "before" picture of our breakfast platter today at the Turkish restaurant - it was delicious and unlike any breakfast we have had. The "after" picture looked much different.

A very long barge running down the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal just outside our hotel

Beautiful mural on the side of a building in Old Town

Blow up of a tiny statue from the picture above showing a devil holding a baby - I think

A blow up of a statue on the bottom of the wall painting

Me pointing out a UFO to Sooz - by the time she looked, it was gone

Liegende Frau mit Frucht von Fernando Botero - Reclining Woman with Fruit by Fernando Botero - Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, born in Medellín.

Little Venice - The former fishing settlement in the island city of Bamberg is affectionately known as "Little Venice". Densely packed half-timbered buildings and tiny gardens characterize the image of this district. The half-timbered houses mostly date from the Middle Ages. Along the Regnitz they are lined up in a nicely decorated row, barges bobbing at the landing stages in the front gardens. Today, the excursion boat takes you right past this unique row of houses.

Inside the Bamberg Cathedral (German: Bamberger Dom, official name Bamberger Dom St. Peter und St. Georg) is a church in Bamberg, Germany, completed in the 13th century. Remains of the smoky incense was still in the air from the morning mass.

Sooz checking for any breathing from inside this tomb but didn't realize she was listening at the wrong end

Impressive shafts of light coming in the nave

The western crypt was filled in with rubble but reopened in 1987–95. It was discovered that it still contained features of Heinrich's original cathedral.

The eastern crypt was created alongside the current cathedral, c. 1200. The tombs now here were only relocated from the nave in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sooz captured this action photo of me staring mindlessly at a blank wall in Old Town

That is a real human being (not a mannequin) inside a "Lotus" but I'm not so sure - it looks like a kit car to me

Sooz wondering why there are so many roses in the rose garden. Framed by clipped linden trees and the delicate garden pavilion (completed in 1757), around 4,500 roses spread their scent and blooms in more than 70 beds during the summer months.