Germany Log 2

Day three trip to Strabing
6/24/2009
Wednesday

This day my mother’s hip was hurting her a lot and so we decided to go the the Staubing Zoo. It was lots of fun. As we went through my mother was very excited to see the tigers. We were about 3 feet away from them and when they went inside to eat one put his paws up on the glass and pawed it at us. I got to pet some of the goats and do the falamaco with the flamingos. It was a good relaxing and fun day.

Day Four trip to Dinkelsbuhl and Nordlingen.
6/25/2009
Thursday

This day my mother and sister were feeling sick and so my father and I decided to head out by ourselves and go up to Wurzburg (one of the three places on my list to go). Unfortunately, we never quite made if because we spent too much time im Dinkelsbuhl but it was still a great trip. Dinkelsbuhl is a old Fraconian town and one of the best preserved medieval urban complexes in Germany. There are walls that surround the whole city. They have many towers but the 4 most famous are Wornitzer, Nordlinger, Seringer and Rothenburger Tor. Dinkelsbuhl also has an amazing house called the Deutsch Haus which is across from St. George’s Church dating back to 1500. This is an amzing and picturesque town. Before we left, my father and I stopped into a small cafe for lunch and a street dog ran in and came running up to us. Eventually the owner came over and took him out, but not before we could give the wet beast some love.
On our way home we decided to stop at Nordlingen. It was a free town during the Middle Ages of the Holy Roman Empire and is in the Reis Basin, which is an immense crater formed millions of years ago by a meteor strike. My father and I walked around the intire fortification walls that surround the entire city. It was 15 towers, dating from the 14th to the 15th centuries. It was a blast but I especially loved spending the day alone with my father.