Bamberg

I’ve run out of titles! Today was an earlyish start, 0900. The weather has changed, it was 4C (40F) climbing to 12C (54F), but at least it was sunny.
We headed off in a coach for the ten minute trip into the centre of Bamberg. Yet another old German city, in concept the same as many of the others, a cathedral, many churches a few castles and in this case many breweries.

The beer brewed here is fairly unique in that it has a smokey flavour. In the middle ages the barley was soaked in water to produce the malt. After a few days the resulting mix had to be dried, this was done by heating from a wood fire, the smoke of which got absorbed into the mix. In later times the heating was by convection, so the the smoke was eliminated. Bamberg continues the tradition of using the smoking fires.

Today’s tour guide was not German, nor American but Welsh. There must be a lack of local guides.

Again, I’ll load the pictures, but with little commentary so I can upload while we have internet.

First a motor scooter for our daughter who loves all things pink!

Now some general views of Bamberg

At the end of the tour we were cold, and being Sunday no shops were open, but cafes were! No lunch today!