Hotel Brenner Koblenz

... So viel ist schon passiert, so wenig habe ich bisher erlebt. Neue Freunde, eine 2te Familie und ein ganz anderes Leben erwarten mich hier. New York, meine neue Liebe! <br><br>Jetzt, mit mehr Zeit und Muse widme ich mich dem langersehnten Lebenszeichen. :) <br><br>Viel Spaß beim lesen!<br><br>

... we just had been through the Köln Cathedral, we weren't that impressed with Marksburg Castle. That's not to say that we didn't enjoy the tour, just spoiled from the day before.<br><br>I will update this post with more info and pictures once I go through everything.

... of course) and the Castle is on top of a huge hill (of course). Did I mention the cab was a brand new Mercedes?<br>At any rate, we got to our wonderful Castle and were hoping for no rain the next day so we could take a boat trip... no such luck. The rain has returned on our trip. Instead, we took the train up to Koblenz. The entire river is littered with castles. Most have them have been converted into hotels it seems. And the towns along the ...

This is not a great adventure, more a welcome back.<br><br>It is great to be back in Villiprott to visit our old friends since the 70ies. Now I have been staying with them for two weeks and we have done a lot of different things. This part of Germany have many interesting places to visit, both nature and culture.<br>

... The waiter was actually the owner and he spoke English so we chatted a little and I watched soccer on the TV and also some spiked hair punks cause a scene and the police came and that was about it. So it was nice few drink layover in Koblentz. Back on the train to Bremen and on to Finland!!

So on the way to Trier, the train traveled right besides the Rhine River. It was AMAZING! The trip between Mantz and Koblenz was the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. There were boats just traveling up and down the river and plenty of vineyards on the rolling hills along with river. Also every 4 minutes there was another town and a larger church in ...

... room for villages along the river. <br><br>It is obvious that with such a narrow valley, the explosions of a fireworks result in a multitude of echoes which is like having a fireworks event in the Grand Canyon.<br><br>On both sides of the river near St. Goars there are two fortresses, which were used to stage the fireworks. Also a platform in the middle of the river was used to ...

... and Amsterdam in Netherlands. Philip and Lawrence both took their cars over for the tour, with highlight of the Nürbergring racetrack. As they say, what happens on tour stays on tour, but we had a brilliant time. Here's a few pictures and video's from the Germany part of the trip, courtesy of Elias, who had the commonsense to bring a camera.

... a wonderful atmosphere. <br> <br>We didn&#8217;t plan a long stay in Boppard so we checked out the train station just to get comfortable with purchasing tickets and make sure there were trains running back to Koblenz. Good thing we did this. Although our guidebook said the touch-screen ticket machines were multi-lingual, we couldn&#8217;t get English to work on the Boppard machines. We ended up using ...

The next part of my journey saw me leaving Munich for Koblenz, or more specifically Mülheim-Kärlich, a small village just outside of Koblenz. I am staying with family friends who we met in Rarotonga. Verena and Marc you will be pleased to know that the first thing I did when I arrived here was go and buy a pair of jeans and a warm jacket. I so needed it. Seemingly overnight the temperatures dropped. Saturday night in Munich was cold and Sunday during the day was just as cold. Koblenz was ...