Friday, December 31, 2010

Germany Part 3!


Church in Nuremberg 


Traditional Nuremberg Sausages





View from the wall around Nuremberg 


Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Germany part 2

I'm sorry I'm slacking here...
Here is day 2 from Germany

Our view from our hotel in Nuremberg

Our hotel

our car, covered in snow

Part of the wall around the Old Town section of Nuremberg 

Around Nuremberg



The Christmas Market

The Fountain


Monday, December 27, 2010

Germany Part 1

My Mom and I went on a trip to southern Germany at the end of my studies. We went to a few towns to check out the traditional Christmas markets. 


Augsberg, Germany. A giant version of a traditional Christmas decoration item

Decorative houses

Tram car in Nuremberg




Our B&B room in Nuremberg. It was very cute

I liked the bathroom!

first dinner

A view of outside with the restaurant's ceiling reflection. quite a cool illusion

I had pork shoulder and mom had Goulash 

Snowing in Nuremberg!

Snow Blizzard

Well, I will begin Germany pictures right after this, but here are some photos from the blizzard that just occurred here in Cranford, NJ. Sorry London, but 20-30 inches is actually a good reason to shut down airports, not 5 inches.

Sunday night

The Princess out in the snow..she couldn't smell anything, she got confused



Dad's new car survived it's first snow

Paddington wanted to play in the snow 


Some of the snow drifts from the upstairs window 

Friday, December 24, 2010

Paddington explores Germany

I'm sorry I have been missing in action lately. After my liverpool trip I was sick for quite a few days. I was pretty bummed because it was my last week in London to do some sightseeing and I could hardly get out of bed. I managed to get a lot of my stuff packed up and my mom came. We spent a day in London then went to Germany to travel to a few cities to check out the Christmas markets. Pictures to come... We came back to London to pick up the rest of my stuff (I had an extra suitcase worth of clothes) and then we were scheduled to fly out from London to Munich, and from Munich to Newark. Well we arrived at the airport Saturday the 18th, and it felt like we stepped into hell. We waited an hour to get our bags checked, and once we were through we noticed it was snowing heavily out. It turned out our flight was cancelled along with everyone elses. We immediately booked a hotel, but had to go downstairs and wait 3 hours for our luggage to come back. It was quite a nightmare. Our airline was not helpful and we had problems booking a flight. The earliest we could get was Tuesday morning. Turned out to be a blessing because there were so many cancellations Sunday and Monday. We spent a few days in the Hilton Heathrow Hotel and Tuesday we were one of the few flights that wasn't cancelled. It was quite a nightmare but I am glad to be home now.

Ours was the first one there that doesn't say cancelled or please wait. 

It was so nice to finally see some blue skies. It had been way too long.


So Germany pictures are to come but first I would like to share pictures of Paddington. I bought him towards the end of my London trip, so Germany was his first adventure.

First Hotel bed in Nuremberg


 The window from the hotel 

Driving around Bamberg possibly

At a Christmas market

At the Carousel in Frankfurt

Frankfurt


Hanau

At the Glockenspiel in Munich 




Now Paddington needs to go to more places!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Beatlemania! part 2

Behind this building is where John and Paul met

Strawberry Fields... gate

House where John lived with his Aunt. Connected to another house-I wish I lived there.

 Paul's childhood home

Paul's childhood home







 Inside-the original was torn down but they recreated it almost exactly