We just completed another city tour and our guide, Gudrun, was fantastic. No one has been as good as Kai in Wurzburg but she was excellent. She kind of had an inside track as she is an archaeologist. And one interesting fact has come to light. Every tour probably rightly starts with a statement of population and then is followed up with how many of them are college students. So two things are obvious. One is that every town and city has a college and another that someone is doing a lot of breeding. That said I thought someone told us that the average couple only had something like 1.2 or 1.3 children. So where are all the college students coming from?
And it is here that the only cathedral in Germany exists. I guess some of those other folks were stretching the truth a bit. This town started in preRoman times but the earliest structures still standing are the walls and gates from the Roman times. There are still 26 of the hundreds of medevil towers. Most are around seven stories tall but were only habitable for the first three. Above that was just showing off. It is a little bit funny to see how a building that is only 400 years old is dismissed as just another building. By the way, the guy that owned the licence for the postal service and the transportation service was named Palais Thurman und Taxis. He was incredibly successful and hence rich. Is there any chance that his name lead to the term for cabs?
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