Wednesday, March 07, 2007
My visit to Wurzburg
This weekend I visited my good mate Christian in Wurzburg (technically it's spelt Wuerzburg but let's not confuse things) where he returned to study after doing his summer work placement in Erlangen.
I arrived to pouring rain around lunchtime on Saturday but this did not dampen our spirits and we had an 'English' breakfast in a cool student cafe bar before having a look at some of the magnificent churches, the cathedral and a grand hosue called the "Residenz". We then headed to his accomodation where we sheltered from the weather and watched some comedy DVDs (Christian has impeccable taste in british comedy - monty python, fawlty towers etc).
After a bite to eat we headed out, firstly to Christian's mate Toby's flat for a few beers with the German boys which was a good laugh. Afterwards we spent the night in a little student bar where we meet up with the finnish ladies who came to Prague with us. They brought an english girl with them too who was really nice, always good to see a fellow ex-pat.
On Sunday we awoke to glorious weather so we headed up the hill which overlooks the city to 'die Festung' (fortress). The fortress itself was pretty impressive but the view over the entire landscape was even more amazing. We then had a pleasant stroll around the rest of the sights before having dinner in a nice italian restaraunt. It was a really nice weekend and I look forward to going back, it's definitely worth a second visit.
Some interesting facts about Wurzburg:
- It's home to the second largest winery in Germany
- The X-ray was invented there
- 90% of the town was destroyed by allied bombing just a couple of months before the end of the second world war. Hence most of the sights have been immaculately re-built.
For more on Wurzburg see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuerzburg
