Sept 10 2104 Wed.  Caught a train to Wurzburz yesterday and got a room at the Stadt Mainz.  We met Bobi and Heini at the Burgerspital for dinner and Heini's birthday.  After dinner J and I rode down to the Alte Main Brucke and had a couple of wines.  That was to set us up for the ensuing ride.

Around the Bahnhof or the Marketplatz in every town are signs that give direction and mileage to other villages in the vicinity.   This ride we are going to have a village we want  to go but not a specific route.  We started off at the Bahnhof, in Wurzburg, rode about a k and lost the trail.  We finally asked a jogger and he set us right again.  We rode thru Estenfeld, heading toward Kurnach but somehow we missed it.   We went thru Seligenstadt and saw the sign for Kurnach but it was in the wrong direction.  We went towards Prosselheim but missed it also it.  We ended up at Vogelsburg, a monastery overlooking the Main River towns of Nordheim, Volkach, Eschendorf and the big bend that the Main make in this area.  The Monastery was closed due to renovating.  We rode down the hill to Astheim and across the bridge to Volkach.   We got a room at the Hotel Kreuzer, in Volkach, then walked up to the Hinterhoefle for federweisse and brotzeit.  It was such a charming place we went back and had dinner.

Looking down into Nordheim and Escherndorf.  Not many pics on this route which was mostly up on the plateau and consisted of fields of corn and vegetables 

Federweisse and Brotzeit at the Hinterhoefle.  The federweisse goes down like kool aid.  We usually have 2 at each sitting.  It comes in red or white.    It's only around for a month or so at the Harvest time.