Hotel Restaurant Muhlentor Bad Kreuznach

Here are the promised photos. I am not including photos of our workshop room and wine cellar; they're not that interesting. Excuse the messiness of parts of the house. You all know how trying moving in can be!<br><br>Tracy has left for France to inspect food production plants, so I'm here ...

... lease we decide to move on to another option that Tracy's German secretary had told her about - a converted country house from the 19th century. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my memory card with me today so that I could upload the photos I've taken. Those will come tomorrow of the next day. For now, I have only four photos for you, each taken at our house.<br><br>Yesterday morning I baked a homemade blueberry pie (with ...

... garlic-buttered baguette with cheese, apple-cream crepe with coffee, and pizza. The coffee was mediocre, but I'm picky about my coffee. The bread and crepe were awesome. You can see a photo of them here.<br><br>From Ramstein, we all left for an antique store on top of what seemed like a mountain. As we approached the general area, I spied some kind of spire on top of a distant hill. The low-hanging clouds covered the higher sections of the spire, so it gave the appearance of ...

Meet Henry, my Mercedes-Benz. He's an odd fellow; nice enough, if a little cranky; advanced in years. We don't communicate so well yet, even if we are both obviously making efforts. It's that I can't always read his signs clearly. He lags when I want to move quickly, and when I want to play it safe, he jumps. I never know which button to press to get the reaction I want, and sometime he acts confused. For now, I'm chalking it up to generational and ...

... is that I am the foreigner here. I knew I was going to meet with a German in an office of Germans (even if they are employed by the US government) to go to meet Tracy's and my future German landlord. And I don't speak German. When associating with people from other countries, I am accustomed to it being more of less on my culture's terms, though I never thought about it until now. Plus, I am used to ...

... up, and it indeed look like Jack Nicholson would axe you to death here. And their internet connection wasn't working, so they never got our resevation for a double room with no bath or window. So they gave us a ginormous suite with a balcony for the same price. Sweeeeet.<br><br>"Bad" means "bath" in German, and any town called "Bad" has a spa. So tonight we went to the town spa to "take the waters" at an art nouveau bathhouse originally ...

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 ...

... 9 yo host brother we arrived in the littleish town of Bacharach, lying cosily in a little nook of the Rhine River. The difference between the geography of Schleswig Holstein and Rheinland-Pfalz is amazing, the long, low marshes against the rising mountaing and flowing vineyards...along with flowing wine. We started off our tour with a climb up one of these mountains to Rheinstein Burg, an ancient castle perched precariously on ...

... zoo, today's weather was terrible- windy and rainy, so instead I spent some time writing emails and the rest of the day shopping and tasting the Christmas market foods. That evening I spent a bit of time trying to fit my new clothes in my backpack!

Vi var något försenade ut från Arlanda, beroende på en stor familj som inte checkat in sitt bagage men det löste sig och vi kom iväg och landade någorlunda på tid i Frankfurt. Det hade i och för sig inte gjort så mycket om vi var sena då vi hade gott om tid i Frankfurt och det är ju inte världens roligaste flygplats.