Tomorrow is lunch at Snooze, followed by Jan getting her toeies done. So we had plenty of time for a leisurely breakfast and a nice lunch with our friends before we headed for the buses. Note the vertically-planted vineyards. It seems that the workers slipping and rolling all the way to the bottom is a real problem.
But the Prince-Bishops thought that the Fortress was just too small to measure up to their exalted position. This is what they thought was too dinky for them. So in construction was started on the Residenz, but like a lot of these projects, it dragged on through several different rulers, and it took 24 years to finish the exterior buildings, and then another 36 years to finish off the interiors in And the place is really something.
We spent a couple of hours touring the palace, and as happened in Nuremberg, when we came out, it had gotten much colder and was now sprinkling. None of which was forecast. Nothing new, of course. We started the Walking part of the tour, heading into town, about a 15 minute walk, first checking out the Old Stone Bridge.
The first bridge here was built in A. It was rebuilt, and, until , was the only to get to Wurzburg from across the river. But they were all over the place. Like many churches over here, there have been a series of churches here, with the first one dating to A.
As this point, as evidenced from the raindrops on the photo above, and the fact that it was getting even colder, we decided to end our participation on the walking tour and headed back to the bus. And so did a lot of others. One last fact is that in , William Roentgen, working in his lab in Wurzburg, discovered X-Rays, and in was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery. Later at about 7pm, warmer and drier, and with a nap under our belts, we met our friends for dinner.
