Sunday 20th October 2024.
Day 37.
Today has been one of those frustrating driving days yet again. On three separate occasions we found the road we were on closed for repairs and diversions in place, at least today there were a few diversion signs but if you had no knowledge of the geography of the area they weren’t a great help ( evidenced by the confusion of German drivers in front of us) thankfully for once the sat nav was a great help. We ended up covering an extra 30 miles and adding an hour to our journey as the diversion took us through small villages with 30km speed limits.
We are staying in a stellplatz on the outskirts of Marburg which is a lively student city with a history dating back over 800 years with a quaint medieval core.
The university here is the oldest protestant university in the world founded in 1527, the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm studied here and collected many of their fairy tales from around the region.
Set high up above the town is Marlburg Castle or Landgrafen Palace built in the 11th century as a fort and developed over the centuries, today the building is used as a museum by the university, most people climb up to it for the view not to enter the museum. Sadly today I failed, today’s long drive and day after day walking on average 3-5 miles has taken its toll and I couldn’t summon up the energy or enthusiasm to walk up the last 100m.
We did reach quite a high level and paused near a church where there were views over the city.
We probably only managed to see about 50% of the town but the afternoon was drawing to an end so we made our way down and back to the river, which we followed back to Homer.
taraabit 