So after the little boat trip that I told you about yesterday, Ms. Müller, her family and I headed into Speyer proper for some lunch and little walk around town. I remember when I was showing you all around Regensburg I observed that many German towns are pretty similar. They’re on a river, they have some beer-gardens, and they a all have a big-ass cathedral. Turns out Speyer fits that bill.
After departing from the Rhine, we walked around the requisite 1,000 year-old cathedral (which was still pretty impressive, as they all are) and hung out for a while in the little town square. It was a pretty enjoyable afternoon, and the city was definitely worth seeing… So check it out:
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- A couple of statues near where we parked…
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- Some old castle-y thing… Probably a castle.
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- The Dom (cathedral).
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- I’m not entirely sure what these little guys are, but there was a farmer’s market in town, and they must have been selling them, because lots of people were carrying these purple artichokey things around.
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- Holy shit. It’s Hanson’s German doppelganger. But, to be fair, these guys weren’t all that bad…
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- Some gigantic statue outside of the cathedral…
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- Dom
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- And in each of these impressive old cathedrals is a ridiculous organ…
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- Inside the dom.
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- It’s kind of a shame that the first German cathedral I saw was the Kolner Dom. It set my standards awfully high. Cause this place was pretty damn cool, but it’s got nothing on the Kolner Dom…
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- Old couple looking around just outside.
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- Creepy-ass, heavily eye-browed scarecrow at the farmers market.
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- Town Square, and some unfortunate sap trying to drive through it…
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- If you look real close, you can see yet another Asian taking pictures…
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- Still amazes me that this shit has stood for 1000 years. Through 2 World Wars and who knows what else…
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- Awfully pretty little structure…
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- Some other crazy statue…
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- Another some other crazy statue…
I suppose that’s all for today… Tomorrow I’ll take you to Jülich and show you around this crazy park / zoo / Napoleonic fort thing that Ms. Müller found. Or maybe the next day. But hopefully tomorrow.
Don’t be a stranger.
-B. Littleton
