Come Take a Walk With Me....

Time for pictures!

Last week was gorgeous, but freezing. Literally. And I'm so nerd-tastic that I compared weather forecasts for Nuremberg and Portland. The daily highs were about the same, but Nuremberg was averaging 15 degrees cooler in the lows category. Also, we had sun and Portland had...well, rain. No surprise there. I decided to take advantage of the blue sky and I went for a walk from our apartment to the center of the old city to take pictures specifically for this blog.  Click here to see a map of the old city. This is the portion of the city that is surrounded by a medieval wall. Josh and I live outside of this wall, but it only takes a 10 minute walk full of visual delights to reach it. 

So please join me for a "walk" from our apartment to the city center...

The view from our kitchen window.

The view from our living room window.

The patio/courtyard area for our building. This is a work in progress, but we've been told that there will be a table and chairs out there come spring. Also, we can have a grill and do all the container gardening that we want.

St. Johannis Cemetary. Albrecht Dürer is buried here and this church and cemetery were untouched by the WWII.

St. Johannis Cemetary - I like to incorporate it in my walks to the old city. Much more peaceful than walking along the street.

St. Johannis

Once I leave the cemetery I have my choice of walking paths down to the river.

Frost! See, it was really cold. This was at noon.

These houses overlook the park that is by the river.

Almost to the wall but of course I didn't take a picture of it. So lame.

Just inside our entrance to the city wall. A beer garden along the river? I'm in!

One of my favorite streets. My favorite bar is on this street. Coincidence?

Hauptmarkt and daily produce market. This is where the Christmas market will go down!

The Hangman's Bridge

While taking this picture a a youngish man stopped to watch me take this picture. He took turns looking at me and looking at where my camera was pointing in bewilderment. Like this wasn't worth taking a picture of and was the most hideous thing he has ever seen! He did this the entire time I  was stopped and was still confusedly standing there when I left. The staring is out of control here!

This was a fairly short walk, but I wanted to give everyone an idea of what a typical walk to the heart of our new city looks like. Give any of the pictures a click if want to make them larger.

Teaser: Josh is currently working on his first guest post for the blog - it's regarding one of my favorite subjects. Get excited.