This city is famous for two surroundings walls, with a moat between them, as you saw in the picture with the map from our previous post. The tour guide was delightful, with stories about everything. We started at Nuremberg Castle and wandered downhill with the group.

The statue of a rabbit (in honor of an artist – scientist – author who painted one like it in 1502 to call attention to human’s destruction of nature.

Nuremberg skyline, showing one of the round towers that was designed to repel cannon fire:

Famous sanitarium in use in the Medieval times, taken from a bridge over the river that flows through the city.

Lots of interesting fountains:

This fountain was to celebrate hydro-engineering:

We listened to a trio of street musicians for a while. They were good!

And, this statue represents the “ship of fools”

We arrived back at our cruise boat for lunch as the boat left for Regensburg; no fools are we!

• Europe 2018