Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Public toilets that play music & murals that look like boobies!


Erin & Dave, the hosts in Germany, decided to take Colin & Maria around their city of Wiesbaden where the murals on the walls seem to be a little more erotic than the ones in Sussex, NB. These look like boobies other than bread rolls.


The city is known for their hot springs. There used to be 27 of them, but today there are only 17. Some are housed in cool buildings like this one!


Today, this hot spring was shut off for maintenance. So I guess that makes it only 16 left in the city.


Then our thirsty tourists had to have beer and some authentic German food!

First the drink. Erin, Dave & Maria each had a Bitburger Pils, while Colin had a cold tall glass of Erdinger Weisbier.


Then the "snack" plate! Look at the sausage!


The tour continued with a stop into the Cuckoo clock. Their motto is "If we don't have it, you don't need it." And it's home to the worlds largest working cuckoo clock.



The tour continued with a stop to one of the city's parks where the Eagles will play this summer and Leonard Cohen and many others have played! But somebody had a lot of beer and needed to stop into the worlds cleanest public toilet. It may have cost 50 Euro cents, but it was clean and while you did your business, it played relaxing music to help you through your time of relief... And the doors opened like you were on Star Trek!



Next stop, The Ratskeller! Which is housed under the Town Hall. Apparently many of the towns in Germany have a pub under their town halls. This one also had an antique beer bottler.


Erin & Dave introduced Colin & Maria to the German "meat bucket" and Andechser Doppelbuck Dunkel.


It was filled with pork hocks, pork chops, sauerkraut, gravy, pork, potato cakes & pork.

To finish the night it was off to the Scotch N Soda for bar trivia & more drinks.. It's actually owned by a Scotsman from Glasgow & the trivia hosts are also Scottish, who spent time in Halifax & they watched a Saint John Flames (former AHL team) game where they got to see Saint John hockey native Andy Kim play! They also had the chance to see the PEI Senators play while they were in the Maritimes!

It was right around the time of the campfire whisky that things kinda got smokey.


Tomorrow it's off to Frankfurt!

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