McCains in Prague: Germany/Switzerland Extravaganza Day 1

Dad and Ruth left this morning, so now I have some time to tell you about our trip, sorry for the delay.

Train: Prague - Nuremberg, 5:11AM

So we took the train at the crack of dawn, got a little bit of sleep on the train, but mostly we were all too excited (and a little bit uncomfortable) to sleep.

Nuremberg was a nice little town, it looked like it was set up inside old castle fortress walls, which was neat.

After finding the hotel and checking in, we went to the Christmas market, which was pretty impressive. One of the cute things about most of the Christmas markets we went to is that they served hot wine in a small mug which you could keep, or return for 3 Euro. We kept all the mugs and now our cabinet is full!

After wandering around the Christmas market and grabbing lunch, we went back to the hotel for a nap, where we got to watch a brief anti-nazi parade/protest from the window.

Afterwards, went to the coolest restaurant ever. The place was called Bagger's, and there were no waitresses, but excellent service. Each big round table had two computer screens where you ordered your food and drinks, and each table also had a difficult to describe way of receiving the food. Basically it was sent down to you from the kitchen upstairs and spiraled down to your table. Here is a video of the place:

All in all, Nuremberg was wonderfully fun and I think my favorite German city we visited. Germany was pretty impressive overall. For some reason I didn't expect much from it (maybe it was trumped by the anticipation of Switzerland) but every place we saw there was super clean and everyone we met was extremely friendly.