The weather has been really nice lately-- to think it was snowing a couple weeks ago! But B managed to get away from work early on Friday, and we had ourselves a right nice weekend-- a little sun, walks around the Wöhrder See lake, and some people watching and wine sipping outdoors by the city walls. Today though, we used our alpine start of 2:00pm to do a little snooping around Nuremberg's neighboring city of Fürth (pronounced "furt"). The last time either of us was in this smaller (population 120,000, seventh largest city in Bavaria) city was in August when doing some whirlwind apartment shopping, and our main concern at the time was that even though it was only about 4 miles away, it didn't have the big town amenities or conveniences of Nuremberg. But Fürth is not without its charms or history-- for a start, it's actually older than Nuremberg, with the first recorded mention going back to the year 1007, and both Henry Kissinger and Levi Strauss were born there. But anyways, today we just hopped on the train with no particular place to go when we arrived, other than to find the "city center," and poke around. What we found was a city with most of its architecture and buildings intact-- some as far back as the 17th century, a terrific city park that has walking/biking paths that follow the Pegnitz river (and lead back to Nuremberg), and a nice quaint shopping area. Not that we'll be moving there anytime soon, bit it was a very pleasant time on a glorious day.
The weather has been really nice lately-- to think it was snowing a couple weeks ago! But B managed to get away from work early on Friday, and we had ourselves a right nice weekend-- a little sun, walks around the Wöhrder See lake, and some people watching and wine sipping outdoors by the city walls. Today though, we used our alpine start of 2:00pm to do a little snooping around Nuremberg's neighboring city of Fürth (pronounced "furt"). The last time either of us was in this smaller (population 120,000, seventh largest city in Bavaria) city was in August when doing some whirlwind apartment shopping, and our main concern at the time was that even though it was only about 4 miles away, it didn't have the big town amenities or conveniences of Nuremberg. But Fürth is not without its charms or history-- for a start, it's actually older than Nuremberg, with the first recorded mention going back to the year 1007, and both Henry Kissinger and Levi Strauss were born there. But anyways, today we just hopped on the train with no particular place to go when we arrived, other than to find the "city center," and poke around. What we found was a city with most of its architecture and buildings intact-- some as far back as the 17th century, a terrific city park that has walking/biking paths that follow the Pegnitz river (and lead back to Nuremberg), and a nice quaint shopping area. Not that we'll be moving there anytime soon, bit it was a very pleasant time on a glorious day.
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