Bamberg.

This lovely old building with it's two arm like bridges is found in the town of Bamberg. I'm not too familiar with Medieval architecture, but the front portion looks like Tudor gone wild and I love it. Look at the lovely old gargoyles creeping up the wall above the archway. I suspect lots of little German boys have had fun dropping things on people as they sailed below them through the bridge...I'm just saying...I'm sure it's been done.

This is where K spent her day yesterday, exploring this lovely old town. Luckily for Bamberg, it saw very little of air strike action as it housed a rather substantial artillery factory during World War 2.


And I'm just saying isn't this gorgeous? It is but it probably isn't looking like this today, as Europe is covered in a huge blanket of snow, and many Europeans are bracing themselves for the coldest Winter in twenty years. Brrrrrrr! I should like to go to school like this though in the mornings. I'll have my drum at the back and pound on it so the children can know when to dip their oars. If they have made me late,of course the pounding will have to be double time....I suspect it will only happen a few times and who knows what will happen to the child who "forgets" something at home...I can't see the oarsmen wanting to turn around. These houses were fishermen's houses in the Nineteenth Century.

K went to school today in Memingen. I asked her how the language was going. She said she understood the English class, and art, cause they only had to draw a shell. It must be difficult going to school in a foreign language, luckily smiles are a universal language and by the sounds of it, K is full of them.