Bamberg

Well I think we earned it, but today in Bamberg was 26C and blazing sunshine all day. And to top it all off, Bamberg is a fantastic town, beautiful old buildings mixed with a very cosmopolitan cafe culture which sems to attract not only tourists but local people from all around. I managed to get to Bamberg relatively early considering I was disturbed by my tent mate arriving back from a night out at 5am. He did not get to Bamberg early.

The centre had two or three proper markets going on as well, real ones with goods like fruit and veg, the sort of markets sadly missing from much of British life.

As seems to be the norm in German towns, there were multiple old churches, including the Dom. It was unsurprisingly spectacular, but not on the same scale of ostentation as the Cologne Dom.

We visited a little cafe, which also produced a great cappucino. I think the UK still hasn't grasped how to make a good coffee, even with all the baristas and cafes which popped up in the past few years. Why this is remains a mystery to me. This little cafe also furnished my two companions and me with delicious apfelstrudel in vanilla sauce, which looked suspiciously like custard. However, it was excellent, which seems to be the norm in Germany.

Bamberg has a small riverside district called "Little Venice", which doesn't really look like Venice, but is little. Apparently fishermen used to live there, and each house has its own dock. The picture above shows what I mean. Soon it will be dinner time, pork steaks, potatoes and veg apparently, so I will sign off for now.