Mercure Hotel Trier Porta Nigra

Wow what a family adventure. The 6 of us cousins packed our bags and headed to Stansted for a great adventure across Europe. From the huge slices of birthday on the plane to the bumpiest landing ever Hols and I were feeling more than little sick. An exciting 2 hour journey on a coach reminding one of school trips with the back seats. Arriving at 2am it was an advernture making our way to our shared dorm. 6 people in one room for the first time in 8 years. Ear ...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope everyone is having a great time eating turkey and watching football back home :). I'm in a country where we aren't subjected to the awful sport of football fortunately. Unfortunately they don't typically celebrate Thanksgiving either. Luckily I am reasonably close to one of my best friends from the states and we were able to celebrate turkey day in typical American fashion. This morning I travelled for 4 hours by train to ...

... area about 5 minutes outside of town that she takes the dogs to. It is a huge farm and there is a road that winds all the way around it. It took about an hour to walk the length of the road. The dogs love it. It was a bit chilly, especially when the wind was blowing. Conrad had to stop and feed some cows. It was fun to play with the dogs.

When we got back to the car, we went to see a waterfall. It was a ...

... before we crossed over the border, we decided to make one last stop in Germany. The city of Trier. It's the oldest city in Germany and was founded in 16BC by Augustus as the Roman town Augusta Treverorum. I think it was the largest Roman city this far north. But apparently before Augustus came in and took over the city, it was inhabited by the Celts for 1300 years. So it's old. Really old.

We dumped our bags into a locker at the train ...

Saturday 3rd... Just a day trip to Trier on Saturday The rest of the time was spent resting at Mels house in Luxembourg Trier was very cute. if not that it could have been better in summer (isnt everything) they had a beautiful gothic cathedral very stony and older than ...

... feinherb, fruchtig, kabinett, spatlese, auslese); Lunch next day was a Roman menu based on Apicius´cookbook - Mulsum (dry white wine lightly spiced with honey & herbs), wine roll, sausage with pine nuts & green beans with onion; carrots & zucchinis with apricots, roasted almonds & spices, and soufflé of pears for dessert. Trier is a hotbed for ancient Rome enthusiasts and I could have spent weeks there following ancient roads, visiting villas, eating Roman meals, etc but alas, as always, not enough time.

So I was up the crack of dawn this morning. Yes, I think I am the only person that I know that gets up at the crack of dawn on a vacation, but it does give me more time to do stuff. At 7:00am this morning I left my sister's house in Speicher Germany and headed for my first rail adventure. I walked down the cool trails my sister and I had explored yesterday, and found my way back to the station without problem. It must have only been about low 60's or so this morning, I actually ...

Our family travelled to Luxembourg for a week for a work conference. Was it just me or was there a bank on every corner? I think the trip was quite expensive for my parents.
Assuming it was because there are so many languages spoken in ...

Saturday 23/3 -Travelled from Paris to Luxembourg dept 11.03 arr 14.44. Had a quick look around Luxembourg to get acquainted with the city, then found a church for Sunday mass.

Sunday 24/3 - After mass (in German) at 10am, we had a look around ...