Our next stop - Wurzburg. This place is a small city just south of Frankfurt, at the northernmost end of the "Romantic Road," a winding trail of small cities and towns chock full of historic castles, palaces & cathedrals. Wurzburg, it so happens, is also in the Franconian region of Bavaria, which means they have spent at least as much time on their culinary mastery as they have on architecture.
We pulled into town sometime after noon, and found the nearest tavern. The waitress was nice enough (which by the way, seems to be a defining trait amongst Germans) to educate us on some of the local specials, and they were very unique and pretty much unbelievable. Skick had the local schnitzel (delicious) and I tried the Wurzburg specialty, cooked pork suspended in a sort of gelatin, served cold. Sounds strange, I know, but it was damn good.
That afternoon we checked out the town's Residenz, or palace. There's at least one of these in pretty much every city, all lavishly decorated and whatnot. This one is one of the more famous ones, with a crazy marble staircase, tapestries, chandeliers and all that jazz. Definitely impressive. That night we tried some local wine (a bit odd - we didn't personally like it much) and a huge platter of Franconian cheese, which was delicious.
Back towards the station, we stopped for a late breakfast, and were introduced to the most amazing tradition - "Bavarian breakfast." Bavaria, if you hadn't already guessed, has quite a food and drink culture - just our kind of place! Anyway, so a Bavarian breakfast is Weisswurst (tender sausage), a pretzel and a hefeweissen beer. Now that is the way to start the day!
That wrapped up our time in Wurzburg, so we hopped on a train in the direction of Munich - home of the beer garden.
More on that next time!
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