We left for Nürnberg the next day, and spent a good part of the day travelling. There was not much of note on the journey, apart from when we went past the BMW factory near Regensburg, which was absolutely enormous.
When we arrived in Nürnberg we found the youth hostel, which Tim had booked for us to stay in as it was "in a castle" (cue trumpets sounding) except that when we got there, because it was in a castle it was a bit of a dive. It was unfortunate that in the whole of Germany, the only youth hostel where we had to share a bathroom was there, when we were on the home run, feeling travel weary, and in need of something slightly more upmarket than we were presented with. It also didn't help that in the room next to us (and we shared the bathroom with them) were four giggly American teenage girls who were apparently there with a school group. Talking in high pitched voices and giggling in the middle of the night seemed to be a fun thing to do for them... not so for us...
We went for a walk around the centre of Nürnberg that afternoon to explore and had a late lunch at McDonalds. McDonalds in Germany is a bit different to McDonalds in Australia, evidenced by the fact that you can buy McBeer. They also differ in their opinion of whether a thickshake is a drink or a dessert, with the Germans being in the dessert camp on that.
We also went to see the German National Museum, which was largely boring, though we did get to see a number of portraits by Dürer. I continued to be disappointed by the German lack of interest in displaying traditional pieces of embroidery in their museums.
We went out for dinner that night, because the fare on offer at the youth hostel didn't seem at all enticing (says us, who had McDonalds for lunch!).
