or – a lovely 5 days in the Franconia region of Germany

  • Above the Rhine
  • Frankfurt from the train
  • The centre of the village of Dettelbach
  • Apricots for breakfast?
  • Yep!
  • A weed burner
  • Main street, Dettelbach
  • On the first day in town it poured
  • So we explored inside
  • Magnificent trompe d’oeil in Wiesentheid church
  • Angelika in Prichsenstadt
  • Interesting packaging for meat
  • Angelika gives directions to the Maserati driver
  • Note the bumper sticker!
  • Magnificent power station, Wurzburg. Almost as good as Battersea
  • Getting clever
  • Wurzburg bridge with the castle
  • Wurzburg market
  • Stiftung Juliusspital, Wurzburg. Try saying that with a mouthful of lamb.
    This is a full working hospital funded by wine! There’s even a beer garden in the grounds
  • Relief at the spital!
  • and the beer garden
  • It was getting quite warm
  • Beautiful evening light at Wurzburg castle
  • View from the fortifications
  • Nice place for dinner
  • Couldn’t resist
  • My bnb
  • Fall already?
  • Relaxing in a friend’s garden. . .
  • . . .before my day’s work in the vineyard
  • Mmmmmm
  • Yep
  • Surveying my handiwork from the nunnery – now a vineyard
  • Volkach
  • Ah, the man who founded the (wine) hospital
  • Just for Sarah
  • Cruise down the Main . . .
  • . . . .comes with beverages . . .
  • . . . and a place to bask in the sun
  • A feature of the region – beautiful wrought ironwork
  • Ummmm – stuck for choice!
  • Share my train journey back to the airport with an 80 year young lady and her fig tree