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Friday, January 1, 2016

Speyer Technik Museum and Weihnachtsmarkt

When Rand was much younger, we visited the Speyer Technik Museum with my parents. I thought it would be a good place to revisit with Rand now and boy, was I right! This kid had the time of his life! Rand had a blast looking at all the planes, trains and automobiles... oh and the U-Boat!

Kids under 5 are free, children 6-14 are 12€ and adults are 14€.

Parking is 2€.

All around the museum you will see signs like the one below and coin machines. You can buy tokens 6 for 5€ or 13 for 10€ at the front desk or you can use ,50€ or 1€ coins. Each one is different and makes a machine move or make noise. Rand's favorites were the ones to do with trains... go figure. I enjoyed the large musical organs.

After chasing Rand around the museum for a few hours it was time to go and get some lunch at the Christmas Market just a short walk away. It was a 10minute walk through a park to get to the Speyer Cathedral (The Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen).

I was so excited to see some Gewürze (spices) and Rand was just as excited to see some rides!

As you can see Rand kept changing his seat while the ride was going :/

I am sad to say that was our last Weihnahtsmarkt. We will be moving back to America in the Summer.

TECHNIK MUSEUM SPEYER
Am Technik Museum 1
D-67346 Speyer

Friday, July 19, 2013

Speyer Technik Museum and Brezelfest

Before heading off to Neuschwanstein and Austria, we had a day to kill so we took a day trip to Speyer. I heard there was a Brezelfest and I thought it would be a fun experience for my parents. We stopped off at the Speyer Technik Museum for the first half of the day before going to the festival.

We all had a lot of fun! This place was huge and had something for everyone. Be sure to hit up the exhibits across the parking lot at the Museum Wilhelmsbau. I really enjoyed this building. I loved looking at all the vintage clothing and listening to all the music boxes.