Trip to Erfurt

Grit and I took a trip to Erfurt on Saturday, August 30th to meet Ute and do some shopping. Erfurt is a beautiful city and had lots of great shops!

I stayed over at Ute's house Saturday night and spent Sunday sightseeing with her family and our friends Marco and Janine. The first photo is Janine, Marco and Ute standing a wall around a church in the center of Erfurt.

As we walked through the city we came to a unique street of shops and houses that was actually a bridge! The photo below shows a view from the river-side of the street and you can see the houses. I saw a similar image on lots of postcards since this is a very unique thing to Erfurt.

Ute's husband Andre and her daughter Paulina met us for ice cream. Here Paulina is trying on my sunglasses--I think they are a bit big!

Our next stop was the Petersburg Fort. We took a torch-lighted tour through the underground walkways of the fort. This was interesting! It was pitch-black below and without the torch we would have been lost. More photos are on my Flickr site and I took lots of photos from the wall of the fort --it was a great view of the entire city!