Hotel Pension Am Ballinghain Bad Kissingen

... no chance of being understood. Blessedly, there is some recognizable tunes. Shuls is a dance machine.

We stopped on the main bridge at a cafe with a fire blazing and had coffee. We then returned to the ship for our optional excursion to Rothenburg. A Unesco site that is a completely walled in Medieval village from the 12th century. We had lunch at a quaint Italian restaurantm the owner from Naples. Best food of the trip!

This town is ...

At Bamberg we left the Danube-Main Canal. The canal was completed in 1992 and allows ships to travel from the North Sea to the Black Sea. This connection had been dreamed of since Charlemagne tried digging one in the 8th century. Another attempt was made in the 1800s but the advent of the railroad doomed it. It took 20th century technology to make it possible. The canal itself has 34 locks out of the total of ...

The fourth biggest city in Germany, with over one million inhabitants, Cologne (Köln in German) began life as a Roman colony or colonia (hence its name). Its location on the Rhine, at the heart of Germania, was key to its status as capital of the province. The city became a centre for worship, famous for the legend and cult of Santa Ursula, and built several splendid Romanesque churches, which survive today.

By the Middle Ages, Cologne was one of ...

We say good-bye to the little Gausthaus after breakfast in the half circle dining room. We are now going down the Romantic Road in, Germany. Our first town stop is in Wurzburg. The sights to see here are a couple of churches and the castle along with all the older style village homes and buildings.

The castle boasts having the largest fresco ceiling painting in the world. We go to the castle and purchase our entrance ...

... main point is that a concentration camp is defined by the lack of legal preceedings which lead to someone being interned. It's not a stretch, therefore, to see the connection. Interesting things to think about.

So after catching the train back to Munich we arrived at the train station and got our last German reservation taken care of. It wasn't difficult, and after this we only have to make two more train reservations. It's very bittersweet that all of this is ...

... nearly straight away for a guided tour up to the Bishops palace.  We are all saying, another ABC (another beautiful church or another bloody church) I can’t believe how much money these people must have spent on their castles and palaces when there were starving people in the street.  Everything is paved with gold.  The gardens were just awesome and we spent quite sometime outside before ...

Our visit in Regensburg ends today and it's much to my dismay. I'm really going to miss the Beiber/Kliegel family and already look forward to our return here. We start our final road trip to Amsterdam and plan a few stops along the way. One of those stops being in Wurzberg for lunch. Arriving in Wurzburg we find a very quaint cafe to eat lunch that overlooks the Main and the Wurzburg Castle. Once again, we determined that we should ...

Us again Well we decided to leave Holland and head for Wurzburg in Germany this is the start of the romantic road ( note janet there is not any it must be a con or the special chuppa chup headache!) We loaded the bike and headed south in great weather warm and sunny in fact since leaving the UK it has been great. Well Wurzburg is 586km from Amsterdam so it was hold tight and here we go, I must admit that driving on the ...

... and I learned something new - a Baroque garden has to have an English, French, and Italian section. I quickly booted around town - it felt a lot like when I was in Leipzig last year, both in terms of the feel of the town, and the speed with which I toured it (see blog entry entitled "The Beautiful Breakdown Blitzkrieg Tour" http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-en tries/pwong/euro-2007/1190499480/tpod.h tml?tweb_UID=pwong) Wurzburg is definitely worth a ...

... m above sea level at Hanau. The river Mainin its natural state is a fast-moving stream unsuitable for shipping.In the 19th century the river was tamed and a system of dams and locksis now part of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal connecting the North Sea with the Black Sea

Lohr is said to be Snow White's possible birthplace.