Hotel Restaurant Cafe Am Markt Bacharach

Short entry this time....

Only here for one night. Got to the hotel saw a couple of shops with beersteins, birkenstocks and clocks. Had dinner and watched some feral women proceed to get ****** and act like idiots in the hotel bar. Some good news though, won 30 euro on the slot machine in the hotel.

One of the guys (we assume it was a guy) even peed in the hotel hallway and our Tour Manager had to clean it up. People can be such animals.

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... Oh and I almost forgot! While me and my mom were chatting away, Chris went off and got us each a flower. One for my mom, since it was her birthday, and one for me, well, just because I’m me! Isn’t he a sweetie pie! It’s a good thing he never reads these ;-)!! Hehe!
That ended our trip to Mainz but it was worth it for a little quality time with my mom! Hopefully we will get another chance to get together. Love you Mommy!

Wow St Goar seriously looks like a very typical little German town, it's hard to describe why but when you just look at the little houses you know your in Germany.
Went to wine tasting last night coz the Rhine Valley produces sweet reslings and i like sweet wines but even i was like dude this is hurting my jaw LoL...
kinda wish i was a mum right now coz it seems like we stop for a second and Kylie ...

... is closed until June 2010. grrrr. But we got our Euro's worth in the rest of the park- we discovered a ride called "City Jets", which is like the Dumbo ride on steroids. The park was so empty that the operator didn't care if we loaded us both into one tiny jet, and used our combined body weight to bounce up and down so hard that we smashed into the ground a few times. Awesome. We also went on Europe's highest sky merry-go-round, but at that ...

... path from Roman times and earlier.

The main feature of the trip was the many castles spread along the route. Most of these were to enforce river tolls, or to claim various sections of the river for a particular baron or, in later years, as elaborate residences for the rich. Dad bought a book about the castles that provided more information to complement the commentary provided on the boat.

... the distance shouting back at her. And I mean loud yelling with some bad words that even I knew (anyone remember what the German girl in “The Bourne Identity” said the entire movie?). It went on for quite a while and I finally figured out that someone must have been in the bathroom and wasn’t coming out.

So this whole time I was trying to follow Rick Steves “Rhine Blitz Tour by Train or Boat.” There were quite a few castles all ...

... including day trip boats like ours, and long narrow floating hotels. However, most of the river traffic consisted of cargo boats. These are quite interesting. Many of them are apparently operated by owner-operators, a bit like highway trucks in Canada. Thus, the family will usually live right on the boat. On many of these boats we saw evidence of daily life - laundry flying on the lines, play structures, slides and kiddie pools out ...

We've been lost in Norway without internet so are catching up a bit since our return to Denmark

We’ve encountered the Rhine River (think Mississippi River) and its surrounding valley. It’s a beautiful, green ancient area with castle-dotted banks and villages full of narrow streets and medieval towers and walls. I could tell we were going to like this place. We drove into Bacharach pointing out castle after castle until finally we saw one that looked like the ...

... ruins. We saw a miniature replica of the castle and realized that the many rooms we were seeing was only a fraction of the original castle. With several tunnels, a huge wine cellar, an apothecary, a brewery, a dungeon, and a gorgeous view, the castle was pretty amazing. After we hiked back down from the castle, we stopped for ice cream. For those of you who don't know, an ice cream cone in Germany is much cheaper than in America, and far ...

... to a statue. Found out it was a statue of Engelbert Humperdink. hehe. Made it to Bacharach and ate dinner at the Alte Haus. It is the oldest house in Bacharach (1492) and the food was very good. The menu was only in German and the waitress didn't speak English, so we just randomly pointed at an item like the previous night in St Goar. I ended up with schnitzel and fries and Hartley had beef in a cream sauce. We then ...