Ulm: The City

Next day we took the bus for the 5 minute ride into the city and spent the day there. It's a beautiful city, much new and cosmopolitan, and also much of the old.

The old Rathaus, beautifully painted and restored; the new
Rathaus is a totally modern structure that contrasts starkly
with the great munster (cathedral; next post)

Plague monument (?) with the pyramidal city
library in the background

Me at the city tourist office; we visited Ulm not least on
behalf of our old college and graduate school friend,
Mel Ulm

Relief on a department store entrance on the central
pedestrian mall

An old house sloping into the canal in the Fishermen's
Quarter

Thus

Something new, to us at least: a geocaching shop; geofashion?!

We spent some time at the Danube Festival that Ulm
hosts annually; here's a guy from Hungary doing some form
of goulash

It stretched along both sides of the river, Ulm and New Ulm,
with food, beer and wine, and hand-crafts from all the
countries the Danube passes

More of the Fishermen's Quarter: half-timbered heaven