Buchbrunn - 19 March (Thu)

We slept very well after another long day yesterday and a wonderful meal last night. I heard the boys waking up, so I went to check on them. They were nervous to come out of their room without me since they were in a new place. They weren't so nervous that they were quiet though. I brought them out into the main room. Charley leaves for work before 7:00 normally. They already had the paper (Main Post) and were having breakfast and coffee - breakfast was brotzeit, which was good because the boys were used to it and knew what they wanted.

Penny slept a little late.

Charley travels in the area for his job as a salesman for industrial equipment. He would be back around 4:00 or so in the afternoon.

We had already made plans with Mary to go to Würzburg today, so we got ourselves ready and headed out around 9:00. We got a good view of the area - which is very close to an autobahn crossroads.

Kitzingen had a U.S. military base for many years, but it closed between 2005 and 2007. This means that the town of 25,000 lost 10,000 soldiers and their families. The German government owns the buildings from the base now. The town of Kitzingen is going through an adjustment now. The village of Buchbrunn never had many soldiers living in it, but many German families from the village worked in Kitzingen.

There are many vineyards in this area. Frankish wine has become very popular in the last several years. One particular Frankish wine is known for it's special bottle - Bocksbeutel.



Right outside of town, we stopped to see the place where Gabi works. The growers in this area cannot afford to do all of the processing, fermentation and then bottling and distribution of their wine, so GWF does it for them. The factory was huge. At one point we could see stacks of pallets of cases of wine for more than 100yards.

We entered the building through their tasting room - Vinothek. Of course our camera was in the car the whole time, so I knabbed this picture from their website.



Leaving this place, Mary took the smaller roads to Würzburg. We went through several small villages right on the Main river. It was a beautiful drive - about 20 minutes or so.

We saw lots of modern windmills on the hillsides.