 | A party of 18 members with wives visited the Rotary Club of
Karlstadt-Arnstein during the last week in September. This was the fourth
away
trip to see our German friends since the link was inaugurated in
1998.Some of the group flew out to Frankfurt on the
Friday afternoon,
whilst others had taken a longer spell of three days to make the journey by
road, stopping overnight en route at Trier and Dawn in
Rheinland-Pfalz for some
extended sightseeing and relaxation. Similar plans for a leisurely drive home
with various points of call had been planned. After
checking in with our
German hosts, the main event on Friday evening was a welcome supper in the
homes of other Club members. Unfortunately those flying in were held up in a
traffic jam for hours by a major accident on the Autobahn and didn't
make it
for supper until getting on for midnight. |
Left above: Tom
Upfill-Brown
and Malcolm
Wykes together
with Inge and Horst Wiehle
at the home of Elisabeth and Wolfgang
Merklein. |
 | On Saturday morning most visitors and hosts went round
the old town of Würzburg. The highlight was a guided tour of the early
18th
century Residenz (left), the baroque masterpiece of Balthazar
Neumann.
The afternoon programme included a reception at the
Rathaus,
the Karlstadt town hall (right). |  |
| | Pictured
above (left) Some of the visitors by the fountain in the courtyard of the
Residenz on Saturday morning, and (right) in the Juliusspital
Weingut, the ideal place in Würzburg for a traditional
Bratwürst
lunch | |
 | |  | On
Saturday afternoon in the Spitalkirche there was a short concert
given by saxophonists from the local music
school | | Above left: some
of
the
audience in the Spitalkirche. Right: the saxaphone
group in action. |
 | |  | In the
Council Chamber of the Rathaus (town hall) President Ivan Grundon
responds to the welcome by President Rüdiger
Eichler | | — whilst members
and guests enjoy a
glass of Sekt and listen to the
proceedings |
 | |  | Next,
Stefan Heßler and Wolfgang Merklein lead a sight-seeing stroll through
the
old
town | | In the evening, the party
moved off to a
wine-tasting and supper at a local Weingut in
Retzstadt |
 | |  | The quality of each
wine is duly considered — and
enjoyed | | President Ivan Grundon
prepares to hand
over his club's gift to the host President |
 | |  | The
presentation is made — | | — and President
Rüdiger acknowledges the gesture |
Sunday morning
brunch at Rieneck| | The weekend visit
concluded
with a brunch at Gut Dürrnhof, a popular restaurant in
Rieneck,
a
village also on the River
Main a few miles noth of
Karlstadt | |
 | After lunch it
was time for Auf Wiedersehen and the journey home, or in the case of
several Cuckfield & Lindfield participants, on with the
tour — some in the direction of Berlin and Dresden, others towards
Rothenburg and Heidelberg. |  |
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