Disaster Strikes

Dear Family, Friday November 7th, 2008
We got up early this morning, and got on the train to Leipzig. Kira showed us around for a half hour, and then we got back to the train station and got on a train to Nuremberg. At Nuremberg station we bought tickets and followed the direction from the website on how to get to our hotel. After getting there, it turns out that the reservation didn't go through on the website, so we suddenly had no place to stay. The hotel itself charges 35 more Euros than we had signed up for on-line, so we opted to get another place closer to the city center. We lugged our stuff back into town, looking for other hotels and internet cafes on the way. When we finally found an internet cafe the Turkish man recommended a hotel, and in the end we couldn't find anything closer that wasn't outrageously expensive, so we got it.

After walking there we dropped off our stuff and went out into the city. We found a particular fountain I was looking for fairly quickly, but then the Bratwurst place I had eaten at last year was either closed up and gone, or they've moved (it was a street vendor). So we tried three different kinds of Bratwurst, which was really cool. We also got some good Lebkuchen, and looked in at the shops.

We're both pretty exhausted, so I think we'll be getting up early tomorrow and going home to Vienna, this trip to Nuremberg hasn't been the best....
Love,
Anna