Wurzburg

Since I didn't use Wurzburg on the previous blog I can use it now to recount the rest of the day. Viking organises things to the enth degree. It is more than a little unusual that we actually have some time of our own. So the good news is that Liza is off shopping. I'll give you one guess about the bad news. Yep, exactly the same.

We learned the difference between a cathedral and a church and a chapel. That doesn't imply that I remember the difference, only that we learned it. Or is there some inherent relationship between learning and remembering? Oh well, on to other things.

There were lots of churches and chapels and maybe even a cathedral, but the best part of the day was meeting some college kids. Wurzburg has about 125,000 residents and nearly a quarter of them are students. School hasn't started yet but the students are showing up. Not enough to overpower things but certainly enough to influence things.

While we standing in the square and surrounded by religious institutions (noticed how I did that?), a particularly gregarious girl came up to offer us some local wine. It is a little, but very little, like a Beaujolais in that it very, very young. It was actually more like tuba, the Filipino wine made from coconuts. Still slightly sweet and cloudy, it came in the same sort of plastic jug that milk or oil comes in. We bumped into them several more times around the town.