My 12th day in Germany was our last day of official planned events, and it started with a two hour bus ride to a city to the northeast of Augsburg. I slept the majority of the bus ride, as I stayed up pretty late the night prior. I think I’ve said this in a prior blog, but my neck pillow has been my savior on this trip! Best purchase hands down. Anyways, we arrived at Regensburg at around 10:30 in the morning to meet up with our tour guide.

Regensburg is a very old city, dating back to the Holy Roman Empire, and was not bombed during the second world war, so it still has a lot of its original architecture. To get into the main part of the city, we had to cross over a wide river on a 12th stone bridge. This stone bridge was a very important bridge, and the only bridge across the river until about 100 years ago.

As we went along our tour, we learned a lot of cool things about the town. The story of the statue below is about the son of a Holy Roman Emperor who was born in Regensburg. This is just a bit of the history in this very storied town.

Our tour ended at the Regensburg Cathedral, which was grand but also half under construction. Apparently, this cathedral is often under construction due to the beautiful green limestone which is also unfortunately very weak. This cathedral was also to be our meeting point later in the day, which was great because it is very hard to miss. After our tour, we got lunch and walked around the town a bit before meeting up with the group again.

We then took a short bus trip to a building called Walhalla. It’s a very greek looking building built in the early 1800s by the king of Bavaria, and it overlooks the Danube river. This building is a memorial for significant people of German ancestry, with their busts inside. A few people I recognized in there included Immanuel Kant, Jakob Fugger, and Albert Einstein. This place was really cool, and I could see myself relaxing there with a book on a nice day.