A Smörgåsbord of Deutschland

INGOLSTADT

Little did Lauren Posey know that basically every town in Germany rules.  No lie people!  Again this town is in Bavaria and offers much to the touristic eye!  This is the main street of the town where you can almost always find people casually spending their time at an outdoor cafe.  Say a "guten tag" or "tschüss" here and there, and you'll fit right in.

Not sure why, but so far the church in Ingolstadt has been my favorite.  Maybe because there's an awesome crypt below the main part of the church.  Granted we didn't get to see the actual crypt, there were headstones for the rich families in the main area of the church.  Visiting Germany helped me learn that I have a crazy fascination with crypts/graveyards.  Who'da thunk?

AUTOBAHN

My first experience on the Autobahn people!  Granted, I probably would have driven a lot faster, it was still awesome.  Cars would literally shoot right by you like jets. The German Autobahn was made for me.  Granted Hitler concocted the design for the highway, I don't think he had me in mind.  (At least let's hope not...)

REGENSBURG

My favorite city in Germany by far.  You're walking down the street and then suddenly a Gothic church built in the 13th-century pops up!  Not to mention that all the shops are in the original buildings from way back when.  You can tell their age because of the chapel ceilings and also to save land, they would construct the buildings so as they got taller, they also got wider.  Genius I tell ya. 

Another cool point was they would sometimes use old grave stones in structures.  I guess the rule is that grave stones cannot be repaired if they become broken (or something like that), and for example in the picture above is an old broken Hebrew head stone.  Heck, I give my permission now to immortalize my tombstone on a city wall.  

Another crazy part of the city is that they pioneered one of the first waste management systems.  They would let pigs loose in the city to clean up all the "refuse." Gross, yet effective.

This is the crypt chapel from a church in a town near Neuburg, which is also on the St. Jakob's Way!  Every space of each church is so detailed and elaborate, it's hard to think that in America buildings can only be a 100 years old, where here they're about 800 years old.

AUDI MUSEUM

Oh my, well one of the highlights was visiting the Audi museum in Ingolstad (or not!).  I mean, I love cars as much as the next girl, but all I care about is the color. No, I would not like to know how an engine works or what cylinder engine the car has. Spare me.  They did have historical tidbits on how Audi was used by Hitler during WWII, but that only kept my attention for so long.  You can tell my excitement from my enthused face in this picture!

More Deutschland to come!