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... Wurzburg also has several beautiful Baroque churches.<br><br>I had my first bratwurst at a stand that has sold them for 30+ years. Cheap and good. I also had some Gluchwein, or something like that, which is hot spiced wine. It was great on a cold day like today.<br><br>I left Wurzburg and headed to Rothenburg. When I arrived there were once again, no taxis. So I to lug my luggage, in the cold, drizzling rain, about a ...

... thing I did notice were the German "rest stops". Unlike those we know in the US, these are simply pullovers and nothing else. Nothing else except men peeing along the side of the road, in broad daylight. Come on Germany- Let's invest in some restrooms! At least one of those McClean pay ones would be an improvement.

... one man band who's English sounds like one run on sentence with no chance of being understood. Blessedly, there is some recognizable tunes. Shuls is a dance machine.<br><br>We stopped on the main bridge at a cafe with a fire blazing and had coffee. We then returned to the ship for our optional excursion to Rothenburg. A Unesco site that is a completely walled in Medieval village from the ...

... between Budapest and Amsterdam.<br>We&#8217;re now traveling on the Main River. We&#8217;ve seen many swans and ducks on the river and the hills have many vineyards. After lunch we docked at Wurzburg , another picturesque town with many church spires and a fortress on the hill. The river is crossed by another old stone bridge with large statues of Bishop Princes and saints lining the sides of the bridge.<br><br>

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. <br><br>By the Middle Ages, Cologne was one of ...

... in period style, fancy furniture and ornaments, etc.<br><br>We went down stairs and asked about the castle and were told to go back up to the 'white&#8217; room and join a tour to go into the inner rooms, then once that tour was over we could see the other rooms on our own. Whew! This sounded more like it. There are a few pictures of the rooms and floors.<br><br>We learned that when the war began everything possible to ...

So last night was a rather sleepless night, as the Europeans we share our rooms with don't like to shower and smell like heathens. Anyway, we woke up, had breakfast and headed to meet our tour to go to Dachau. The company who runs the free tours we've been on before and talked about at length was the same company that we took this tour with today. Additionally, we got 20% off for being guests of a participating hostel, and another four euro off for being student. Cheap way ...

... We only just had enough time to clean up and go for dinner and then went to the lounge for a talent concert put on by the crew.  I have never laughed so much, Mac put it all on video so we will have that as a wonderful memory.  Pretty tired at the end of the day so packed up at 10:30pm and went to bed.  It is dusk at this time and seems to be strange going to bed when it is still light outside."

We drove for about a 100 km to Wurzburg where we had lunch with menus that had NO English. We all basically ordered blindly, but it turned out pretty well none the less. WJ and Judy learned to ask for still water and that they served it in a wine glass. This was also the beginning of the dessert marathon. Judy and WJ figured that if the other three of ...

Drove to Lohr am Main.The town lies on the Main in the Spessart (range) about halfway between Würzburg and Aschaffenburgin Lower Franconia. Lohr lies on the eastern slope of the Spessart at abend in the river Main, which swings here towards the south, formingthe beginning of the Mainviereck ("Main Square" - the southernpart of the ...