Shenanigans Crossing Borders

Today’s adventure, a big loop, with the rental. 

Elyce listed several towns within a specific radius, and JP figured out how to make the whole map work. Armed with a sticky note and google maps, we made a route that would get us out of town for the day, and see the “burbs” (the joke is, most of the towns in Germany are the burbs, haha [awkward, personal laugh in silence])

Leaving Kitzingen, we hit chicken town Buchbrunn, home to a wine maker that we thought about touring, but skipped out on. 

Just a hop, skip and a jump to Biebelried, where there was a hotel. That was it…and a fountain, but we didn’t even see that.

Now, for a bit longer of a drive, we made our way to Bad Merghenteim. 

One of JP’s favorite parts about driving these country roads, is the sense of adventure, getting lost, finding weird things (like a massive wall of hay, spongebob power box). 

We even detoured through the town of Bütthard!

Yes, JP made a full u-turn to make sure we checked out this town.

There isn’t much to the town itself, but, you know…

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Now, Bad Merghenteim is a cute town. Bigger than Kitzingen, it still felt small, but there appears to be a university here, as well as a large center square. We arrived right when some folks were having a lovely a capella right in the square. 

We got some candied mango and fresh wasabi nuts (sadly the candied mango was too sweet, and the nuts were soft and weren’t spicy at all (sad face)

Walking around, we enjoyed seeing sights in the old city, saw a building Beethoven lived and worked in, then after exploring lunch options (for some reason, the girls turned down fresh tuna sandwiches, though, granted, the tuna still had eyes in it). 

No sense of adventure, I tell ya!

Next stop: Martkbreit – the home of the doc who discovered Alzheimers, Doctor Alzheimer. Cue JP’s sad humor, where he said something like, “I forgot where the house is” right as we pulled away from it.

With that visit behind us, we made a quick stop in Iphofen to take a photo, and then to our title town Großlangheim, which Elyce thought was devoid of anything. Turns out, the town looks really lovely and might’ve been fun to visit. But alas, we were now in a time crunch. So JP dropped everyone off, re-gassed the car, and returned it just in the nick of time, and back for work. 

The girls built a sled ramp off our back deck, and it was a heck of a circular day!