Janet and Steve's TRavel Blog

Wurzburg (16th September)

We escaped the weather and found warmth again in two sites in Germany. The first was between Frankfurt and Wurzburg. The site was right beside the German equivalent of Bicester Village, which was actually called Wertheim Village. It was just the same as its namesake – vast car parks, a long street of posh shops with minimally reduced goods and lots of foreign tourists. We walked around without buying anything and quickly ended up back at the car, to find that a very chatty English/German couple had parked beside us. They extolled the joys of Wurzburg, so we headed there next. Wurzburg is like a mini Prague, and much less crowded.

I had been to Wurzburg before on a business trip. I particularly remembered the bridge with the statues, and the bar on the right-hand side of the 1st photo below, drinking beer with colleagues. That was also in the rain, as I recall!

Wertheim (17th September)

A few km from the campsite was this small town on the Main river. We walked along the river, through the hills to the castle, then down to the town for coffee. Lots of visitors from a big river cruiser moored up on the quay.

Seligenstadt (18th September)

The next day we headed to Seligenstadt, an old haunt from our days in Obertshausen. Steve remembered it but I didn’t – and it was really lovely. We walked along the river Main and had a coffee in the town square amongst all the lovely half timbered houses.

This is a few km from where we lived for a year in 1993. I remember visiting the bakery on Sunday mornings for bread and Kuchen, and then wondering round the village and the river. Roz would have been 3, and Thomas a newborn baby!

Forest walk (19th September)

The campsite was on the Main, on the Baden-Wurttemberg side. We crossed over the river (across a power station ) to walk in Bavaria. The walk was good at the start and finish, but was very overgrown in the middle. We had to find a different route in places.

Rothenberg (20th September)

Not yet having had our fill of medieval German towns, we needed to go to the best, which is Rothenberg, about 75 minutes drive from the campsite. The old city walls are practically complete, (it wasn’t bombed in WW2 luckily), so you can walk the 4km around them all.

Campsite Wertheim

Our campsite bordering the Main river, and occasional sightings of large ships passing very close by.

Camping near Koblenz

We moved on to a lovely campsite in Lahnstein, close to Koblenz. Like many of the sites we enjoyed, the campsite was right on a river bank, this time the River Lahn.

Koblenz city (22nd September)

Koblenz is notable as where the River Rhine and Moselle meet, at a place known as Deutches Eck (German Corner). This is my photo, taken through the glass of the cable car (see Janet’s reflection in the picture!)