Danube Bike Tour Day 13: Regensburg
Posted by Cassie, November 19th, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
We spent the day exploring Regensburg. Most of the city is designated as an UNESCO world heritage site. It was a really neat city with nicely preserved old buildings. We walked along the Stone Bridge, which is the oldest bridge in Germany. There are great views of the city from the other side of the bridge.
Stone Bridge
We went inside the cathedral with its twin towers. The towers remained unfinished for a long time because the church ran out of money. In the 19th century, King Ludwig I financed the completion of the twin towers. The cathedral was enormous inside, and I felt like I was inside a big cave. They were completing the installation of a huge new organ. They had a short church service everyday, and we stayed to hear the organ music. The rest of the service was in German, and we didn’t understand any of it.
Cathedral
Cathedral
We found a sausage stand set up in a square next to the cathedral, and they actually had turkey sausage! Usually, they only had beef or pork, and that did not work well with my dietary restrictions. We finally had an authentic Bavarian lunch with sausage and a big pretzel. The only thing missing was the beer. 🙂 We spent the rest of the day walking around the city admiring the neat, old buildings.
David and Goliath mural
We stopped at bookstore because we had run out of reading material. They actually had a large selection of English books, and we were surprised to find a book about a library cat named Dewey in Spencer, Iowa. 🙂
On our walk back to the campground, there were people everywhere in the city. There were two universities and a college of music, so there were lots of students walking around. We ended up following a large group of students as we were walking, and we thought we would end up at a wild party. Instead, everyone was going to see a play at a theater. 🙂
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