Peter - Day Fifteen and Sixteen - Trains, Snow and Old Cities

Bruuur, it's cold today, cold enough for it to snow overnight!

For next two days, before we all leave to go back to Sydney, we'll be traveling to both Pforzheim to see Schmuck Museum, and to Nuremberg to see Helen Britton's exhibition at the Neues Museum.

After having our breakfast, we started onto our train trips to Pforzheim.

I have to say, I always found taking a long train rides interesting, since it a different from the usual type of traveling I have experience. In my whole life, including these two trips, I have taken a total of five times. It's always to interesting to see how "life" actually passes you by, and in trains, you get to see it more up close and personal rather than flying and seeing minuscule dots that are moving. It's also interesting to see how life changes from town to town to countryside. It one of the best ways to become an observer on how style of life changes geographically.

One of the many views from the train. 

Then we arrived Pforzheim, rushing to the museum due to the freezing cold. Seriously, the city went from looking like it was the end of winter to a winter wonderland in a couple of hours of being there. It was great to go to see the Schmuck Museum and see the progress and history of jewellery, and the development of jewellery in the the last century.

A Leuchterwiebchen!

After we were done with the Schmuck Museum, we then ventured off to catch our next 3 hour train to Nuremberg. By the time we got there, it was night, and we were hungry. So we all went to a local restaurant. My god, I almost flipped when I as Leuchterwiebchen (a women carved chandelier with dear antlers attached to them) because here was an decorative ornament, that I was barely able find anything about it, that was the bases of one of artist Jane Dodd's jewellery series.

The Beautiful view of Nuremberg' Cathedral 

Then, it was our last whole day in Germany finally arrived, what a shame. After we went to see Helen Britton's exhibition, we had some free time before we all went back on the train to Munich, so we did some walking around this Medieval city. I can't wait for the warm weather.