Passau trip

Today we visited Passua, a very pretty city about 45 minutes from Deggendorf. It seemed to be a fairly large city, but seemed quaint with buildings painted lots of pastel colors and the Danube river running through the middle.

The highlight of Passau was the gorgeous cathedrals. Since we didn't know what we should be trying to see in Passau and didn't have a map or any visitor's information, we wondered around looking for pretty things. The first cathedral we found was gorgeous. It's amazing how intricate the architecture is and I'd love to know how they built it.

The most famous cathedral in Passau is Saint Stephan's, which I now know has the world's largest pipe organ. It made the first cathedral look plain. These pictures don't even begin to show how pretty it is!

I thought the plain wooden fews were interesting compared to how ornate everything else was.

The ceiling!

As a complete contrast, we also saw a Lutheran church. I'm not going to pretend like I remember anything about the Protestant reformation, but I'm sure the plainness of this church is indicative of something from the early Protestant days!

Among other Passau

excitement, I used my first pay toilet today! Luckily the cafe where we had lunch gave us coins the same shape as a 50 cent coin to get in so we didn't actually have to pay! We ate at a cafe with no English menus and a staff that didn't go to much trouble to try to speak to us in English. I ordered a wrap, but that was all I could tell from the menu. I was expecting a wrap like at home, but it was hot food inside and really good! The cafe also had a bakery full of AMAZING looking desserts, so we each got a piece of cake for later. It was probably the highlight of my day!