As my days here at St Johannis East of Bayreuth are not infinite I take the chance today to visit the city's center even though that's 5km away from the place I stay. However, it's a rather pleasant walk as it's a very pedestrian and cycle friendly route as you can see:
I might spend time on it on my way back. Now I have a long way ahead of me.
Wish we had as much care shown for traffic noise in Athens but it's only few highways with sound proof walls while here this is the norm:
This ladies and gents is the local Gymnasium:
That's what you experience when you take the pedestrian way under the train line and now I am downtown Bayreuth:
The lack of respect for the pedestrian's green light offers me the following shot of this old but pristinely maintained OPEL:
Walking here at Bayreuth's Hofgarten is very cleansing. I wish I had proximity to something like this around my neighbourhood:
This recreational garden dates back to the late 16th century but till 1790 you had to be a Markgraf to walk around here. Since Bayreuth became part of Prussia on that year things changed.
Wait for it c have to cross Hofbrücke first:
So this is actually "The temple of the sun" or at least that's what my non existing German can understand by "Sonnentempel":
I have to start making my way back (that's another 5km let me remind you) so I take the last shots of this sweet place:
Here's a summary of 4K clips I shot in here:
Walking back to my place Kreuzstein hotel catches my eye with this full chrome trailer outside:
I make a mistake keeping my phone in my pocket thinking I take the right way back but unfortunately this led me to an unnecessary detour of a couple of km so now I am over the train line trying to make a shortcut back to my place:
The local motorcycle store is here but I have no time to check out bikes neither I actually need one anyway:
On my way back I revisit a place that was closed before when I first passed it (I'm an early bird) so now I see that this used to be a palace and now it's a cafe/beer restaurant:
A guy approaches on a bike and I consider him a good target but before I try to ask him he asks me instead something in German. I tell him I am not native and I only speak English except my mother tongue (which is all Greek) so he then asks me in English if I have anything to do with the sign placed next to the road which belongs to the cafe. I don't reply the obvious "how on earth would I ever have anything to do with any sign in Germany being a visitor" as he is super kind. I'll never understand what he might have had in mind...
I do understand as I arrive back at my AirBnB that my host definitely has a feeling for Ancient Greece:
Time for you and me to rest cause I have a long riding day ahead. See you on the next one!
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