Werthheim, Germany

October 15, 2016

This was one of my favorite towns to visit.  The town itself has population of 1,500 but annually about 2.5 million people visit it.  Several of us, as we walked through town commented "I could live here."  It was so charming and all the people were so nice.  Reminded me of Breckenridge, everyone was walking through the town square with their dogs.  I met a nice older gentleman who had the cutest little dogs and he let me get my dog fix petting them.

The town sits right on the river and you walk through a gate into the town.  There is one main street that runs the length of the town from the river, then several little off shutes, all narrow and flanked by lovely store fronts.  The terrain is hilly and the town rises up the side of the hill with many of the apartments on the hill over looking the square.

Gazebo along the river

Along the river, walk way from the boat

Gate into the town

Main street that runs the length of the town

Our guide pointed out that the town has actually been raised.  This door is the top half of an original door so you can see quite visibly how much the town has been raised.  This was done to deal with flooding.

Another door

Walking into the main square

Side street

Main street going to the main square

Buildings around the main square

Main square

Main square.  If you can't tell, I love the architecture

Another square off the main street

An ATM

Blue building.  I thought this was so striking.  Of course blue is my favorite color.

Another view of the turret.  I thought it was beautiful too.

Well in the main square

Examples of architecture

Remains of castle over looking the town

Another view of the castle - you can see here how it overlooks the town

The two puppies I mentioned - so cute!

Town Clock

After the tour of the town, we took a bus across the river where we had a pretzel making demonstration and wine tasting.  Like many of the wines in this region, they were nice but not a lot of body.  The pretzel making was a blast.  We all got a pretzel to taste what the baker was making.  It was a lot of fun

We headed back to the boat to sail on to Frankfurt.