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QUOTE (dwb @ 27 Sep 2020, 10:24) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>...After a week at the dining room table which was uncomfortable, draughty and cold, the following weekend was spent clearing my
desk in the smallest bedroom. More clearances followed and eventually it was possible to reach the single straight uninterrupted
wall which would make a good location for an adjustable shelving system...
Progress on the town and rail scene looks great. BUT there's a thundering great elephant in the room! Is there no pressure from
elsewhere for a dining room improvements programme? We need to know what subtle technique has enabled you to prevent this
being made the priority for your constructive energy.

 

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QUOTE (kristopher1805 @ 29 Sep 2020, 23:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
We all seem to have been there! When it comes to favourite old German towns/cities I would rate Regensburg and Passau higher.

Regensburg has old railway sidings in the riverside medieval port and hasn't been overly sanitised for tourists, squint slightly and you can rocket yourself back the middle ages. I happened to sit on a parkbench overlooking the Donau and by happenstance got into conversation with a retired German academic who had broken a strap on his sandal. He was shocked to discover that I had never read Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of his mid 1930s teenage walk from the Hoek to Istanbul, and practically commanded me to obtain a copy once home and read it all. But as a holding operation he described the outline history of the area, most interesting.

Passau is a complete riot, never got out of the old centre to see the railway facilities, just too much to see.

 

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QUOTE (dwb @ 2 Nov 2020, 18:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>...Next on the agenda is the Rathaus...
At this time of day (it was actually 11 am as I began typing, site is still on BST!) I would be majorly focussed on finding the best Konditorei in town, with intelligence gathering on the choice of Bierkeller for the evening repast. With that much prosperity in evidence on the Rathaus, this town must have some classy eating and drinking establishments. Happy days very successfully recalled!