zapped by Beautiful WurzBurg

This Saturday had been to Wurzburg(germany). It was a very good time spent there.

We took the RB train from Frankfurt haufbahnhof station to Wurzburg Haufbahnhof. The train was crowded it was headed Nurenberg. It was a total 1 hour 50 mins journey by Train. I had researched about Wurzburg and was aware that it had lot of Wineyards. As soon as we started seeing wineyards from the train we realised Wurzburg was close.

We got down @ wurzburg and headed straight to the Tourist Centre. Unfortunately it was not much help. The Map I had collected from a friend helped here. The Bus drivers were not ready to help us to the First location - The Residenz Palace. We had a 11am English-speaking tour scheduled and we had 10 mins left. So we started by walk towards the palace.
The place was full of tourists and locals as it was a saturday morning. The wheather was perfect and there was no shower and it appeared we were all set for a Visual treat.

The Places we had earmarked were.

• Residenz Palace.
• Fortress Marienberg
• Alte Universitat
• Alte Mainbrucke ( Old Bridge )
• The keep at Marienberg

I managed to get snaps for all the above places...:)


Wurzburg has a Royal Palace(Residenz Palace) and a Majestic Fort(Marienberg) . It is a living testimony to the Lives of the Rich n Famous European Kings. The City itself is beautiful. Wineyards are scattered on the outskirts of Wurzburg.
The City was destroyed during WorldWarII, but has been completely re-built now.
The Restoration work has been splendid and the Palace and the Fort do not appear ravaged at all.

There is an old bridge connecting the two parts of the
City. Climbing to the top of the Fort was interesting. An interesting
incident happened here. I saw two germans coming down from the fort downwards
while we were climbing the steps.
My as usual wished him with a "Guten Tag!" good day greeting, to my
astonishment he wished back saying "Hari Bolo!". I was zapped and I turned to my
friend who was equally flabber gasted.
He had also heard the German say "Hari Bolo!" .
This was one of our interesting experiences @ Wurzburg.

From the top of the Fort we could see the City of Wurzburg in its full splendour.
This city is said to be part of Bavaria. People(bavarians rather) are very different from the Frankfurters we know. I discovered, they have very good personality(by german standards :) ).
by the timewe got down from the Fort, it was lunch time. We headed to the china-Thai Restaurant to grab a quick byte. Luckily for me she had a porridge kind of thing without Eggs.
While the others relished the chinese delicacies...I feasted on the rice paste I was offered :).

Then we headed straight to the market. There we could get pretty good bargains@ C&As( a chic mall). By the time we reached the cash counters , we had just enough time to catch up our train back to Frankfurt haufbahnhof. The return train was a RE, a better version than the RB train.
We slept for the better part of the journey back.
Overall we got to see a very good City in the vicinity of Frankfurt. Also in hindsight Frankfurt appears very very dry compared to Wurzburg which has an air of beauty in everything.

~P.