Day 2 - June 30

Today was a day of a lot of foot work. We had a really good night sleep and got the day started off with crumbled eggs and meat! We walked around Wurzburg, first to the Dom (pronounced dome), a catholic church that was mostly destroyed during the last few days of World War 2. On the day the Dom was destroyed, so also was 90% of Wurzburg, mostly done by British forces. A funny thing happened while we were in the Dom. We were standing in the back by the entrance and one of the attendants came over to me and started speaking something in German. Fortunately Christina was there to help me out, however when she told the attendant that I was American and didn't understand German, she said it in English...LOL!

After the Dom, we stopped to get a döner, which is a Turkish gyro made of lamb topped with steamed cabbage and carrots and zaziki sauce which is a yogurt based sauce. We also got pommes, which is German for french fries. We took these to some picnic tables along the Main (pronounced mine) River and had a really nice lunch...and so did the yellow jackets who wanted to help us eat our lunch.

After lunch we went to the Residenz and took the tour in English. The Residenz is a government building which dates back into the middle ages. Most of this building was also destroyed by British forces on the same day as the Dom. The Residenz was visited by Napoleon and other high dignitaries from countries as far away as Japan and China. It also has beautiful gardens and a Bier Garten. They were having a special Weinfest (where they served wine and beer) in the Bier Garten which we refused to pass up...LoL!

On then way back to Manuel and Christina's flat, we stopped and got ice cream and coffee. Since Germany is about as far north in latitude as Nova Scotia, the sun doesn't set here until 10 pm which, for Tammy and I, confuses us because we lose all track of time.

I've uploaded new pics to my picasa sight, here is the link to the album...

https://picasaweb.google.com/kmcmullen81/McMullenTravel?feat=directlink

Tomorrow we visit a bit more of Wurzburg and then we are off to Bergoberbach (about 1 1/2 hours south of Wurzburg). This is where we will be staying for the next week or so and it is the home of Manuel's parents.