Hotel Restaurant Cafe Am Markt Bacharach

... enter the St. Martin Visitor's Center, only to be told there is not a single room for rent in town. We headed to Mikalhammer, the next town over. Same story. Someone literally laughed at us- apparently you need one year advance notice for the wine harvest time. Thanks, Fodors...we almost had to sleep in the Smart Car until a nice tourist office worker found us a room outside Neustadt, a major city on the wine route.<br><br>With sleeping ...

... and a plate of whipped cream with chocolate sprinkles on it. The pot made three cups of hot chocolate. We walked back to the boat in time for lunch. During the afternoon we cruised the Rhine Gorge where we saw many castles on both sides. Some were ruins but some have been restored. Some are owned by the German Youth Hostel organization and are used for that purpose.<br>The narrowest and most ...

... br>Tel. +49 171 319 7777<br><br>This Budget hotel offers room only (17&#8364;90 pppn) with breakfast as an add-on option (7&#8364;50 each). <br><br>Rooms are clean and bright ours had twin beds and en-suite shower, and a large drinks fridge. Some rooms are noisier than others; the ones at the rear are quieter<br>Alcoholic drinks are available from reception at reasonable prices but even cheaper from the supermarket around ...

... it was 4 trains away to Bacharach in the Rhine Valley. We made it to Wurzburg, then Frankfurt, and then Mainz... and then we missed the last train out to Bacharach. Thinking we were going to spend the night in a train station and NOT in castle, we reluctantly asked the clerk what we could do... she handed us a voucher, said to go get a taxi, and he would drop us at our door! So we basically LOVE the German Train system, especially since it was ...

Bingen OR<br><br>We had a bit of a sleep-in this morning before our breakfast in the Bingen Hotel. The hotel was really crowded and the breakfast room was packed and generally lacking in food. It was not a pleasant experience, especially bumping up against other tourists who had their chairs and tables crammed up against the buffet tables serving cereals and other food.<br><br>Apparently one of our tour ...

... so I decided to go over to it too. <br><br>By the time I made it back to the main square it was over 1.5 hours until the next boat down the Rhine (my plan was to take a boat about an hour to the town of St. Goar, where I was staying that night). Since I&#8217;d pretty much seen everything in Bacharach, I decided to sit at a café on the main square and get something to eat. I ended up at a &#8220;Weingut&#8221;, or a winery that also sells food. I was in wine ...

... fireworks. The most amazing fireworks design this year was a perfect "Smiley Face" :-) , and I was very lucky to have managed the perfect shot of this fireworks display. <br><br>The echoes from each firing that echoed back several times throughout the valley were amazing. Equally amazing the light shows along each of the castles, and the waterfall cascade fireworks cascading down ...

... room for error.<br> At Koblenz, we disenbarked briefly to look at the Deutsche Eck, the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel rivers. It displayed a giant memorial statue to Kaiser Wilhelm. It featured a giant mounted statue of Wilhelm Der Gross. I know that the statue to Emmanuel II in Rome is supposed to be the largest mounted equestrian statue on Earth, but I doubt that it has anything on this one. The Kaiser Wilhelm statue is ...

... ve ever toured (I don&#8217;t know how many we&#8217;ve toured though so that may not mean much). <br><br>Hostel-Castle Burgh Stalech-Back at our own castle, we discovered we were staying with about 110 loud middle-schoolers in their last week of school survival camp. We thought it was funny that they were still in school and that they all go on a survival camp at a castle for the last week of school (maybe better than wandering the halls which is what we do). We picnicked in the ...

... in Frankfurt, Germany around 6am Saturday (local time- 7 hours ahead of Chicago), got our bags, and waited for Jen and Ryan to join us after flying from Nashville. Their plane got in about an hour later, and then we were off to Bacharach, Germany, a small town along the Rhine River. After finding the hotel we were staying at (much more like a bed and breakfast) and leaving our suitcases and bags there, we were off to ...