I was asked about food

In response to Janice's question about food. Yes I have been eating and sometimes very well. On riding days I have not developed a rythym nor felt really hungry (See breakfast below). On the well part I enjoyed a sumptuous salad and organic turkey steak a few days back in Volkach in the beer garden. On the other part there is a variety of wurst although that is a little unkind.

My conditioning was that sausages allowed the bad bits to be transformed into something palatable for the peasants, and the good bits by others. Now for a rich nation like this it appears there are no good bits, just wursts and wursts. Do they raise pigs without the expensive good bits? Another German bit of efficiency? Are they all peasants driving Mercedes and BMWs?

I am familiar with sausage in bread with sauce. They do the same thing here with a crucial difference - the number of wursts in the bread roll are mandated by custom that varies by locale. One, a pair, or a triple. I have so far had two pairs, not yet having been in a town where the other quantities are allowed.

Breakfast are mostly nourishing and often pleasurable with lots of choice and thankfully the ubiquitous boiled egg is a choice I am allowed to decline without offence that I have noticed. Juices, cereals with seeds etc, wursts and hams, cheeses, large range of rolls and breads (rarely white), jams, fruit salads, yoghurts plural, kuchen and coffee. So far many or all of these at each buffet breakfast, and sometimes also bacon and scrambled eggs. I am at this place 3 nights and the breakfast is 5 Euro. Lunch is not necessary.

And of course beer. Apparently around Bamberg there is one of the highest concentration of breweries in the world - 200 breweries has been mentioned and the speciality is smoked beer which is OK. I am sure there are more food stories to come as I have only really sampled the Franconian Region of the Bundesland (State) of Bavaria.

Some claim that the doner kebab was invented in Berlin about 40 years ago. Perhaps. The press clipping below is a few years old. They do them well here.

Just to clear the air a bit it came to my senses earlier today that 2 of the ever present parts of travel are the local food (except for US Americans) even more of which later, and toilets. Prices of hotels are a related issue. There have been a few anomalies in the price of hotels and this place is cheap whilst having been restored to the highest of standards and in the centre of a major tourist destination. But it is not an anomaly as people pay a lot for privacy here. The toilet is shared for rooms on this floor. And the shared toilet is internal without window or exhaust fan. It was instantly clear I was not first. The return on investment for a fan seemed like a compelling business decision.