Speyer

I know it was weeks ago, so I'm going to get Germany wrapped up in condensed versions. Otherwise I will forget where the hell we have been.

From Munich we travelled via Augsburg to Baden Baden as you know.

The next day we flagged away going to Strasbourg and headed for the Rhine valley.

First stop and lunch was Speyer.

Lunch was good although the waiter had no idea what planet we were from and we used the point and shrug method.

He did however understand that I wanted beer!

This is the Kaiserdom Cathedral which is fairly significant in that it's the largest Romanesque building in Germany. The tombs in the basement house 4 emperors, 4 kings and a whole bunch of bishops.

The round thing is actually a wine bowl about 900 years old.

When ever a new bishop was announced the locals filled it with about 1500 litres of wine and they had a festival until it was empty.

This place was incredibly spectatular and again photos cannot do it justice. It looked like an old castle and we thought it was pretty bloody cool.

No one goes to Speyer, it's off the tourist track and until we got to Cologne a few days later we thought this would be the cathedral we would remember as being the best in Germany.