Taken this weekend. Behold, an original, old skool Nuremberg trolley that predates the current modern trams that circumnavigate this fine city. The city and public transit department haul these old trolleys out from time-to-time, including flat-bedding them downtown to make for teeny tiny stores/info booths. This time however, the public transit department was offering folks the opportunity to buy a ticket and ride the rails in style, complete with German Christmas markets' signature drink, the truly icky Glühwein (take the cheapest nastiest red wine you can find, dump sugar, cloves and other low-rent liquor into it, heat it up to simmer and presto, a sickly sweet hangover-inducer. Suffice it to say, the stuff sells like gangbusters here), and Christmas sweets, like the Nuremberg specialty known as Lebkuchen cookies.Apparently, one can rent out a trolley for an afternoon as well-- we saw a wedding party in one earlier this summer and they did not follow the "standard" tram routes. This Christmas tour looks neato enough, but those wooden seats and no heat (other than the booze) and these cool temps would make me think twice. I do love me some lebkuchen though...
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