By request...this is the scary train bridge I went under on Sunday.

As for Monday's visit to Tour and Taxis described in the entry below, you really can't get a sense of how big this place is unless you go there. Just for fun I looked at satellite images of the city, and it's the most visible landmark aside from the Royal Gardens. There's all these discrete buildings on the property, only some of which seem to be partially occupied. Then there's the burnt-out shells and the vine-covered shells. I found two horseshoes rusting next to each other in the drying mud, both still sporting their original nails as if the horse had just stepped out of them for a minute to take a quick shower, but he was coming right back. I put them, luck-side up, on the window ledge of one of the ruined buildings hoping they'd bring some good fortune to whomever might happen upon them. I wonder why the land hasn't been put to better use? Really by "better" I mean more profitable, since if they had been charging at the front gates it's unlikely that we would have gone in, which would have been worse from our perspective. Plus if they were paying attention they would have put more secure fencing around the ruins, which would have taken some of the wonder out of the place. That there is an attractive nuisance, if I've learned anything from Jack.