Destination Anticipation – Nuremberg, Germany

When initially planning our trip, most of our attention was spent in simply getting to Turkey, after which we agreed to head to Germany and the Czech Republic for Christmas. With so much emphasis placed on the Turkish element of our trip, we now find ourselves preparing to have to leave, with the past month in Turkey a complete blur of wonderful memories. However, if we have to leave, we could do a lot worse than to move on to than Germany.

Nuremberg’s Colourful Architecture in the Historic Centre (via)

Although I didn’t grow up dreaming of one day visiting Germany – my notions of the country were primarily based on what i picked up in History class – I fell hard for Berlin when we visited last winter (and returned this fall) and have wanted to explore more of it ever since. Now, timing our visit to coincide with Germany’s famous Christkindlmarkts, there is likely no better time to explore Germany.

What are we most excited about doing and seeing in Germany?

Although we have only four short days in the country before moving onto Prague (by the way, thank-you for this Schengen Zone), we are determined to make the most of it, staying in Nuremberg and making a few day trips t some of the other amazing cities in Bavaria. While we are both looking forward to a huge dose of Christmas spirit, after finding very little of it in Turkey, we also want to make time to explore Nuremberg’s charming historic centre and will likely make a trip out to the Nazi Party Rally Grounds as well.

The Famous Christkindlmarkt in Nuremberg (via)

I would love to wake up to a fresh layer of snow in Nuremberg! (via)

We are also looking forward to partaking in a couple of daytrips through Germany, with Travis’ sights set on sampling smoked beer in Bamberg. I’d like to try to make it to Munich, if even for a day, but we will have to look into the train schedule since it isn’t one of the closer cities to Nuremberg.

With Christmas right around the corner, and then the New Year not much after, these next couple weeks are likely to be busy. However we’ll try our best to keep everything up to date on the blog and get all our Christmas themed posts up before the big day – because if there’s one thing no one wants to read about it’s Christmas after the day has come and gone!