Moselromantik Hotel Panorama Cochem

... our GPS get its bearings we headed to Brugge.

Arriving late in the afternoon we checked in at the Ibis (not the best hotel, but it was cheap considering the cost of other hotels). This hotel is located right in the centre of the old town.

Brugge is a step back in time. The old cobbled stone roads, the horse and carts, and the pretty old buildings. The main form of transport in Brugge ...

Short entry this time....

Only here for one night. Got to the hotel saw a couple of shops with beersteins, birkenstocks and clocks. Had dinner and watched some feral women proceed to get ****** and act like idiots in the hotel bar. Some good news though, won 30 euro on the slot machine in the hotel.

One of the guys (we assume it was a guy) even peed in the hotel hallway and our Tour Manager had to clean it up. People can be such animals.

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Wow St Goar seriously looks like a very typical little German town, it's hard to describe why but when you just look at the little houses you know your in Germany.
Went to wine tasting last night coz the Rhine Valley produces sweet reslings and i like sweet wines but even i was like dude this is hurting my jaw LoL...
kinda wish i was a mum right now coz it seems like we stop for a second and Kylie ...

... from with educational stands of animals, seeds and crops as well as meat and beer. So the ease of a good meal was at every other stall with lots of Charcoal fire pits after much thought we ended up with HUGE rotisseried Ham cobs and a couple of beers.

We then spent the day meandering the cities shopping district before going down to the river and returning to the coach station at 4pm, for the long trip back.

... of course) and the Castle is on top of a huge hill (of course). Did I mention the cab was a brand new Mercedes?
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 ...

... The waiter was actually the owner and he spoke English so we chatted a little and I watched soccer on the TV and also some spiked hair punks cause a scene and the police came and that was about it. So it was nice few drink layover in Koblentz. Back on the train to Bremen and on to Finland!!

... are frequently used as the platform for staging the fireworks.

Having seen the fireworks in Bonn in 1996, we decided to this time in 2009 visit the event at St. Goars on 19.09.2009. In my opinion, St. Goars was by far a better location than Bonn. St. Goars is close to the famous Loreley Rock which gives it a locational advantage.

The Loreley Rock is a German legend ...

... and Amsterdam in Netherlands. Philip and Lawrence both took their cars over for the tour, with highlight of the Nürbergring racetrack. As they say, what happens on tour stays on tour, but we had a brilliant time. Here's a few pictures and video's from the Germany part of the trip, courtesy of Elias, who had the commonsense to bring a camera.

... of it is grown on very steeply terraced hills, which look very labour intensive. It was Easter while we were here and it´s been interesting to see how much the Germans seem to celebrate it. Lots of people decorate trees with painted Easter Eggs, and at several places we ate or stayed they tried to give us beautifully decorated eggs. Anna has taken about 50 pictures of this for mum´s benefit!

... rooms available. We began to call a few of these with limited luck. After about 30 minutes of this a black BMW pulls up and who should step out but Frau Pellny. Apparently, she did not realize we had reservations and had been driving around town looking for us. What a relief! We got checked into our room on the top floor of her house and headed directly to the local wine bar for a ...