Home in Bad Kissingen

our abode

The first pic is the house we get to stay in.  It's like an old museum as it hasn't been lived in since J's uncle died in 2005+/-.  We stayed in it on our previous trip in 2009.  The other pics are of Johanna's Grandfather and fathers work.  They both did artistic metal work.  Our benefactor Peter Deeg, J's cousin has been trying to buy works back as he finds them.  When he gets them he tries to incorporate them into the klinic decor.

Pictures along the ride

Johanna wanted to show some of the trail that we went thru during the first days of the ride and didn't show before.  The trail is mostly paved and runs thru the flood plain of the Main river. This land is cultivated to some extent  and some is left fallow and some is untouched.  The trail is also used by farm equipment to get to their fields.  There is also occasional car traffic getting to the fields or the infrequent house.  The profusion of wildflowers is amazing.  When we come to the small towns the trail usually goes down the main street.  In bigger towns it will go thru the back streets.  In the big cities it will towards the city center but usually miss it.  To get to the old center we usually have to leave the trail and find our way back after the sightseeing.  The trail is well signed except we had problems in the bigger cities because there are so many signs that we would miss the one we wanted and would have to backtrack.  Along the trail near towns there are small plots of land that are turned in gardens.  A person will build a little shed, and have a picnic table set up.  The plots are about 20' by 50'.  They do intensive vegatable and flower  cultivation.  There will 100 in a row and along the RR tracks there will miles of these urban gardens.  It looks like they use them as sanity getaways as well as for fresh food production. 

7-26-11 Gemuden to Bad Kissingen

Pic 1 is doofus leaving Gemunden.  Pic 2 is a pilgrimage church at Schurnau.  Pic 4 is an old mill along the way that is still operating by water power.  Pics 6,7 are the fountain and rathaus in Hammelburg.  We stopped in the square and had eis.   The rest are views along the trail.  This was one of best sections of the whole trail.  It went along the Saale River thru woods and meadows, paved lanes and dirt tracks, and very little traffic, bike or otherwise. 

7-25-11 Ochsenfurt to Gemunden

1. When we left Ochsenfurt I got a good pic of the old walls around the city(pic1).  Pic 3 is the Festung atop the hill above Wurzburg.  Pic 4 is the summer residence of the prince bishops of Wurzburg in Veitshochheim.  It had about 30 acres of gardens including the kitchen garden in pic 5 and the fountain and pool in pic 6.  Pic 7 is a ruins above Karlstadt.  The rest are pic of sights along the trail and the villiages we passed thru.

7-24-11 Fahr to Ochsenfurt

The first stop today was "Maria im Weingarten" a pilgrimage church along the St Jacobs trail.  The 2 noted art works are the Riemenschnieder carving of Madonna im Rosenkranz and the Pieta "Mother of Pains. 
The following pics are of sites along the trail till we get to Ochsenfurt.