Hotel zur Post Bacharach

First off, excuse the weird typing....broken keyboard...<br><br>What a strange 2 days we've had. So if it is 34F and pouring raIn, what do you do on holiday? That 's right, you get yourself to a THEME PARK! <br><br>We spent all of a cold, wet yesterday at Holiday Park, one of Europe's largest theme parks. We went to ride the largest roller coaster drop on earth- 85 degrees down- but imagine our surprise when we paid our 20 euro only to find ...

We&#8217;re docked at Rudesheim and scheduled for a different type of tour today. A little fake train took us to where we boarded two-seated gondolas for a cool and breezy ski lift type of ride to the top of the hill (600 meters) where we visited the monument to the original unification of Germany under Bismarck. From this vantage point we had a great view of the town below and the Rhine River.<br>After ...

WE took advantage of the One Penny (£0.01) flights from Ryanair to go somewhere we have never been so went to Germany the airport is Frankfurt Hahn which although is it's correct name it is cinfusing to strangers as it is nowhere near the OTHER Frankfurt (about 120km by road). We stayed at the Advance hotel zum Hahn which is in Büchenbeuren<br><br>Advance Hotel<br>Haumptstrassre 35<br>55491<br>Büchenbeuren<br>Deutschl and<br ...

... 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 ...

... Mrs. Carpenter) was ill last night with diarrhoea and vomiting and our guide (Lode) was very helpful in taking her to the hospital and getting her fixed up. She joined us for the tour and it was great to see that she had all but recovered.<br><br>We had a pleasant morning walk through gardens down to the Rhine to catch our river cruise boat. I was surprised to see a war memorial dedicated to ...

... short phone call and afterwards is visibly upset. The woman who spoke to me starts consoling the mother but she eventually breaks out sobbing a few times. It was really uncomfortable to be around, especially because I had no idea what was going on.<br><br>Most of the family got off the train after a few stops, but the woman who spoke to me stayed on for a while longer. But she got up and moved and then I heard her shouting at someone and banging on a door, with a man ...

... castles. There are dozens of ancient castles and ruins of castles up on the hillsides. Many of them date from the 1200's, when this area was experiencing a lot of turmoil. Many of these are so-called robber barron castles, operated by minor nobles who extracted tolls from merchant ships that passed by on the river.<br> The final form of river entertainment was the traffic. The Rhine is a very busy place. There were othe tour boats ...

... off a place called St. Goar &amp; went up the steep valley side to see the castle ruins. They were in relatively good condition &amp; the views were lovely. Then got the boat back &amp; headed into 'town' - more of a village but it was beautiful, lots of old tudor-esq buildings &amp; soo many flowers!<br><br>The next day we drove along down stream, visited a few castles on the way &amp; headed to our next destination - the Black Forest<br>

... lunch we did a little shopping at the store next to the restaurant, which had scarves on sale- we're all enjoying the growing trend (and have bought too many already). Then we went hiking to a castle again- this time Burg Rheinfels. Mom had been there with Dad as well and wanted to make sure we got to see it. It was completely worth the hike (and the minimal entrance fee) since the castle dated back to the a long time and was partially ...

... and explored around there for awhile. We relaxed in another cafe so Hartley can reclaim his manhood and he ordered a beer. I had a glass of white wine as I am a very sophistimicated person! As we went back to catch our train to Bacharach we stopped in at a supermarket (Penny Markt) and bought some food and a bottle of cherry Jenever (only 6 dollars!). We drank our bottle (loving the lax liquor laws here!) and did dirty ...