On Thursday afternoon, we traveled on to Erfurt, Thuringia’s capital, and home of Germany’s largest intact medieval city center. Rising above the rest of the city is the impressive Gothic cathedral where Martin Luther was ordained. Not far away is the university where he studied and the Augustinian monastery where he took monastic orders. During our visit to Naumburg earlier, we had encountered the economic importance of the woad plant (used to produce blue dye)—this time we got to actually see such a plant. We visited one of the fords along the Gera River, perhaps the one to which Erfurt owes its name, and a medieval bridge that still have over 30 buildings on it. We returned to Jena for another day of language class, a long Pentecost weekend. On Tuesday we head to Germany’s capital Berlin.