New Year's Eve in Germany is called Sylvester.
Every other year or so the city of Burghausen has an official fireworks show and this year was not the year for it...but we couldn't tell...the average person can buy professional grade fireworks here so there was plenty of beautiful pyrotechnics to be seen from the castle view at midnight
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| It was raining and foggy when we reached the end of the 1 mile castle walk around 11:30 |
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| This is the profile of Kimberly (an American with our group) as she watched the fireworks across the horizon and in the city below |
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| Billy and I don't think it's New Year's without funny hats and things that glow, so we had gone to the Euro store (Dollar Store in America!) and gotten cowboy hats and glow sticks. We also found these great glow cups. No one else looked as silly as we did, so we shared our glow sticks with people we met on the way to spread the silliness around some. It was cold, so Billy also wore his Carhart ear covering with his hat. |
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| It was only about 37-38 degrees or so |
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| You could barely make out the church steeple below when the lighting was just right. It was a fun and beautiful night and definitely didn't feel like anything I'd ever experienced back in Tennessee |
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| We stood at the castle wall for about an hour and looked down below at the lights and the explosions in the air until about 12:30 or so. Afterwards, it was a nice ride home on our bicycles from the city area ...and it was into the wee hours of the morning when all the firecrackers and rockets were silent. |
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