Bristol Hotel Bad Kissingen

We were taken to the palace of the Prince-Bishop. It remined me of a smaller version of Catherine's palace in St. Petersburg, where one room flows into the next, each one more oppulent.

The temperature is in the 40's and windy. Prior to our trip all sources indicated it would be in the 50's and 60's. Oh well.

Last night there was dancing to the music of Sasha- a Bavarian born, one man band who's English sounds like one run on sentence ...

At Bamberg we left the Danube-Main Canal. The canal was completed in 1992 and allows ships to travel from the North Sea to the Black Sea. This connection had been dreamed of since Charlemagne tried digging one in the 8th century. Another attempt was made in the 1800s but the advent of the railroad doomed it. It took 20th century technology to make it possible. The canal itself has 34 locks out of the total of ...

The fourth biggest city in Germany, with over one million inhabitants, Cologne (Köln in German) began life as a Roman colony or colonia (hence its name). Its location on the Rhine, at the heart of Germania, was key to its status as capital of the province. The city became a centre for worship, famous for the legend and cult of Santa Ursula, and built several splendid Romanesque churches, which survive today.

By the Middle Ages, Cologne was one of ...

... on in German, so we quietly leave the room.

We get the guides and begin the tour of the castle. The first rooms are about the war and what happened in this area. Most buildings were bombed and then fire bombed so a lot of the town was destroyed. Then it went on to describe the rebuilding of the town and then Germany as a whole. It wasn't quite what we had expected as we thought we would be seeing the rooms ...

... been there longer, so I understand why we were hurried. I am glad we took the tour, though, because it gave us a better understanding of how life really was at Dachau for the prisoners. It's a pretty important thing to understand, I think.
It's still difficult to comprehend, though, that something like that could happen. Kevin compared it to Guantanamo Bay, and in a way, he had a good point about some of the similarities. I won't go through his whole argument, but ...

... nearly straight away for a guided tour up to the Bishops palace.  We are all saying, another ABC (another beautiful church or another bloody church) I can’t believe how much money these people must have spent on their castles and palaces when there were starving people in the street.  Everything is paved with gold.  The gardens were just awesome and we spent quite sometime outside before ...

... of the fortified castle (which also housed the parking for the buses!) Once Chris was able to peel me off every cool stone in the towering wall, we enjoyed the great city views. Wow. What an incredibly fortified castle this still is! Most of the castles we have had the opportunity to visit have been in some state of ruin, but the Wurzburg castle is intact. Marveling at the feat of building such a structure with its two sets ...

... on a bike same idea as us different direction but almost the same route, they were all smiles after 3 weeks. Woke up this morning to the sound of a big church bell at 7am I know were we wanted to shove his clanger! the town streets were being closed off and stalls being set up everywhere for the annual street festival lots of food, beer stalls and people dancing everwhere great atmosphere even some ompah bands so we ...

... station and come out a door on the other side to get over to the lockers. It was funny. I felt like I was in a maze. The massage was AWESOME!!! Afterwards I went out to the pool. It was a sunny day and there were people laying out in this field behind the pool. It was nice. In the distance you could see ruins of an old castle. I read a book, listened to some music and relaxed all afternoon.

... In Lohr, the river Lohr empties into the Main.Perhaps for its geographical location or the fact that two majorvalleys lead into the interior of the range, the town is known as the"Gateway to the Spessart".

The Main river valley is steep with an elevation change from 160 m above sea level at Gemünden dropping to ...