Laudensacks Parkhotel 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 ...

... between Budapest and Amsterdam.
We’re now traveling on the Main River. We’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.

... most important cities in the Holy Roman Empire and in 1248 work began on its mighty cathedral, designed to house the relics of the Three Wise Men. Known as the Dom (pronounced dome), it was once the world’s tallest building and is arguably still the world’s greatest Gothic edifice, attracting pilgrims from all over Europe, even though it was not to be completed for another six centuries. It is still Germany’s most visited attraction.

... job, well done.

We then strolled through the town, took a look in the two main churches and then headed out looking for a camp ground.

We found one just outside of the town, it is along a canal with barges going up and down the waterways and rows and rows of vineyards on the hill sides. Just a beautiful setting. We had diner in town so we just set up for the night with our canopy us. It looks like rain again.

... 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 ...

... 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."

... off the heavy lunch so we attempt to find the trail to the castle. After about 30 min of walking in the general direction, we are now wondering why we haven't arrived at the gates. Hmm...We've hiked up the side of a VERY large hill dotted with newly blooming vineyards, stop to check our heart rate and continue on to see if we can storm the castle. Wow..a cool hour later we rounded the last turn and realized we had arrived on the ...

... a litre, the bike is going well and just loves cruising along at 110 to 120 luggage and all. We arrived at Wurzburg late last night just as it was going dark so it was a hotel, no problem finding one but only one small **** room left so with some help from the staff found a great hotel around the corner and teh first place gave us a parking spot, as we were unpacking we got talking to a couple from Sydney who are also ...

... the castle was a real fairy tale. The inside was just mind blowing with opera and religious paintings and dripping in gold, the views from it were also spectacular. The romantic road finishes here so we are now heading for Lake Constance and the town of Uberlingen where Beth was born before heading back to France and a luxury holiday home in Megeve (near Chamonix) for a couple of days of 6 star pampering! Uberlingen was just as Robbie and Barbara had described, right on ...

... 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 ...