San Antonio is More than the Alamo
We left McKinney Falls State Park and headed south to San Antonio, Texas. We made a stop at the town of New Braunfels, which we heard was a very nice place to visit, it’s a German town that was originally founded by a German prince alongside a substantial amount of German settlers. They really knew how to pick a fantastic spot located along a river. New Braunfels is pretty much a sleepy town with a Wurst Fest sometime in the Fall, a number of very old buildings built German style, a waterpark with no water running through it and some very interesting murals painted on some of the buildings. It was time for lunch, so we found a restaurant, German of course, and the food was very authentic and tasty. We then stopped off at the oldest bakery in Texas to get dessert, we both had the apple strudel.
It didn’t take us long to drive to San Antonia and into downtown to find the Alamo. It’s a lot smaller than we expected, we thought it would be this huge mission, but it’s basically a church and some old barracks with walls. We couldn’t take pictures while we were inside the church part, well anywhere inside any of the buildings. We thought the Alamo was a great historical site for any Texas, American and Mexico history buff. The place was really rather fun.
We left the Alamo and walked to the river. We past by many interesting shops, countless eateries, curio shops, bars and luxury hotels. San Antonio
Riverwalk was amazing. It’s a man-made canal that winds through much of the downtown, it’s really scenic. We even took the small water-taxi tour=http://www.kent360.com/files/EconomicDevelopment/waterfront/SanAntonioRiverWalk.jpg that points out several cool points of interest. We found that there’s a lot of art sold by craft vendors placed all over the riverwalk, as well as flowers, sculptures and small, little man-made waterfalls.
We were thirsty for a beer, so we made it over to the Tower of the Americas=http://www.toweroftheamericas.com/ , which has a rotating restaurant at the top spire, and we spent several hours in the British pub. Mind you, we only had a beer, it was the company that kept us entertained for those lost hours. By the time we left San Antonio, it was 9pm! It will be very late by the time we get into Austin.
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