Wednesday, Schloss Weissenstein, Bamberg, & The Dom

Today we had a full day. In the morning we had some play time with Princess Chloe.

Then we all packed up and went to the Weissenstein Castle that is about 20 minutes away.

This castle was built from 1711 to 1718 for Lothar Franz Von Shonbom (1655 -1729). This castle has the largest privately owned art gallery with 600 paintings currently and when Lothar lived there it had 2000. We took a castle tour and there were no photographs allowed, but we took a few when the tour guide wasn't looking.

This is the front entrance ceiling. Amazing!

Here are some shots that Josh discretely took with his iPhone. Don't tattle on us!

Here is what the grounds look like.

After we went to the castle we had lunch up the road at the Kellerhouse. Josh is all about the food and Bier, so here is some of his food porn.

Some of the Bier is older than the United States!

Rum cake.

This a view of the castle up near where we had lunch.

After lunch Chloe was still being a good (we've barely seen her cry since we've been here), so we went to see more of down town Bamberg.

We saw the old Rathaus (old City Hall).

We walked up to The Dom, which is the Bamberg Cathedral that is 1000 years old.

Do you need to make a confession?

Next to The Dom is this little area where they filmed the most recent Three Musketeers movie. They also filmed in parts of the castle that we visited today, so we watched part of the movie tonight.

We then walked thought the city and went to the Ice Cafe so Josh could get Spaghetti ice cream. Yes we had dessert twice today. We're on vacation!

After ice cream, Chloe was getting fussy since we had been out for 8 hours. See! She is such a good baby! We picked up some Donner sandwiches and went back home to hang out.

It was a great day, but there is still tons to explore! One note I'd like to make is that Germany is so clean! All the streets, restaurants (which are decorated very well), and bathrooms are so clean!

***Edited to add: Josh changed a diaper!