Wertheim

Today we are still in Germany in a little town called Wertheim. We arrived a couple of hours earlier than was expected, so after a quick lunch, we were off out to explore this place on our own. The town is at the junction of 2 rivers and therefore has a couple of little bridges over one of these to enable one to get to the other side of town. High on the hill is the Wertheim Castle ruins, these a result of the 30 year war. The views from up there justify the climb up to it and well worth it Dave says.  I didn’t go this time. There is a lovely Collegiate Church in the middle of town and it is a refreshing change after some of the many Churches we have been in. This one has very few statues, no stained glass windows to speak of and looks so nice with the orange sandstone bricks outlining all the Gothic arches in the building. A humble and nice place. 

The town square was busy with people sitting having coffee etc at all the little cafes and bakeries. The usual narrow cobble stoned streets/alleys with their steep sloping roofed houses are very nice. It didn’t take us longer than a couple of hours to explore this cute little town.

We had a few white swans and their babies outside our window this morning, no doubt looking for food. They sailed back and forth and eventually, Dave threw them the remains of a ‘delightful’ snowball which he bought yesterday to try. Our guide had said he thought these snowballs were terrible and we shouldn’t even try them…of course, Dave had to dash into a bakery and buy one. They are hard to describe, but are hard and dry.  Dave’s verdict was that our guide was 100% correct, they were awful! So, the swans ended up with what was left of the snowball after everyone had tried it yesterday.