My 'hood

Here are some pictures of my immediate neighborhood. As I had said earlier, our apartment is across the street from "the ring" (Kaiser Wilhelm Ring is the name of the surrounding circular road) which started as a moat, and is now a walking path/park surrounding the old part of Amberg. These are pictures of that area. More pictures to come of the old section of Amberg later.

This is one of the fountains in the parks between the street and the moat/walking path. There are flowers everywhere, even though it is in the 50's every day now.

Little old ladies walk and ride their bikes all over the place. Most people carry bags or baskets with them, a lot of the stores will charge extra for bags. This is the path on the outside of the moat closest to the street. The trees are mostly still green, not many reds and oranges yet.

This is the bridge over the moat that I cross to get into the old town- there are sets of stone stairs periodically to get in and out of the moat. Mostly all of the roofs here are made out of that red stucco (but I think ours is actually brown).

This is a picture of the walking path in the moat taken from the bridge in the previous picture. It is about 2 miles around and good for running, very popular with dogs. It is hard to imagine it filled with water and sharks and piranas or whatever they used for protection.

This is a park inside the moat that you walk through to old Amberg. To the left is an open area and a fountain, and to the right is this: 

I think in warmer weather there might be a biergarten, but now it is just a pretty garden that I like to walk through when going to the farmers market or shopping.

And this is the path heading away from the old part of town and back to our apartment.  Sorry the pictures are somewhat dull, it has been overcast most of the week. Thankfully, showers come in the form of black clouds and you can always seem them moving in!