Nuremberg; Sunday, 03 April, 2022

I had a quick breakfast and checked out of the hotel, dropped my bags off in the left luggage lockers at the station and then headed back up to the castle to take in the views on a crisp and clear morning.

After having a wander around the castle complex I headed back down into town and caught the U-Bahn out a couple of stops to the city’s court complex.

The Palace of Justice is still the main set of courts for this part of the country, though it’s most famous for being the location of the Nuremberg War Trials, where surviving senior members of the Nazi party were held to account for the war crimes and atrocities that had been carried out during the course of the war. The trials took place in court 600 which had only ceased to be an active courtroom a few days prior to my visit. I managed to visit in a small window of time when there was full access to the courtroom before repair and restoration work was due to start to return the court to it’s layout during the war crimes trials.

Above the court room there is an extensive and interesting exhibition on the trials held here and those subsequently held in The Hague as well as the development of the International Criminal Court that now carries on the work that was originally started by the War Crimes Trials here.

By the time I’d finished looking round the exhibit it was getting close to the time of my train back to Munich so I caught the U-Bahn back into the centre of town, picked up my luggage and caught my ICE train south.

From Munich central station I caught the S-Bahn out to the airport, getting off at the visitor centres station as my hotel was located close by.

It was still a good 10 minutes’ walk from the station, which I found out was needless as there was a regular bus from the terminal directly to the airport – on the plus side that did mean an extra 15 minutes in bed in the morning as I could catch that rather than staggering back to the station for one of the first trains of the day.

After checking in I headed up to my room and dropped my stuff off before wandering back down to the hotel restaurant to have a decent dinner on British Airways expense, I then headed back to my room and turned in for an early night given I had to set my alarm for 04:45