I was travelling these last two weeks, and collected enough pictures for two pic spams, due to the charm of the places I was staying at. First comes Ratisbon, aka Regensburg as we say in German. Home of gorgeous buildings - like my hometown, Bamberg, the entire city centre has been declared world heritage by the UNESCO -, awful bishops, awesome scientists (Kepler and Albertus Magnus, take your bow), and as a long term result of the 30 Years War the so called "Perpetual Diet", which has nothing to do with food and everything with the need for a kind of parliament to meet so lots of envoys can bitch about being bored to be posted here and write reports about it. It's been founded by Marcus Aurelius (which doesn't make it Germany's oldest city - that's Trier - , but certainly one of the older ones), and boasts of delicious chocolate made in one of German's first coffee houses (also the long term result of all those envoys having to be there). And here's why it's worth a visit:
( Ratisbon imagery and explanations under the cut )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
