Restaurant-Pension Bei der Post Bacharach

... 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 ...

... part of the river is known for the Loreley Rock which is actually a very high cliff. This is where the sailors were supposedly distracted by the songs of a mermaid and crashed on the rocks. A little further downstream at river level there is a statue of the mermaid.<br>Tonight is the Captain&#8217;s cocktail party and dinner. The dinner was six courses with no choices. It was better than the other ...

... to a dual carriageway. The coaches are invariably full as they transfer folk from Hahn airport to Main airport as well as the city of Frankfurt, where we arrived at 11am. October is the month of many celebrations and festivals in Germany; we found one in the centre of Frankfurt which was about the farming community and its harvest, but not a Harvest Festival in the Religious form. Its main thrust was showing where food ...

Seriously. A real medieval CASTLE. The Rhine Valley is freakin´ adorable. But it wasn´t easy to get to...<br>Instead of shelling out 100 Euro for a train from Munich, we were lucky that our new friend Matias was heading back north, so we got to experience the Autobahn. I think we only got up to about 180 km/hr. So we got to see some of the countryside, and then they dropped us off at a random train station pretty much in the middle of nowhere. From ...

... path from Roman times and earlier.<br><br>The main feature of the trip was the many castles spread along the route. Most of these were to enforce river tolls, or to claim various sections of the river for a particular baron or, in later years, as elaborate residences for the rich. Dad bought a book about the castles that provided more information to complement the commentary provided on the boat.<br><br><br>

... taking off from Nuremburg to go to Frankfurt, where he had a four hour layover before heading over to the US. So he could have taken the train with me the whole way to Frankfurt and probably caught an earlier flight. <br><br>Anyway, that leg of my train ride ended at Mainz, which was right on the Rhine River. From there, I caught a local train up to Bacharach. And it was my most eventful train ride so far. I was using my rail pass for the day, which lets me sit in ...

This morning we took a boat trip down the Rhine, from Bacharach to Koblenz and back.<br> It was a beautiful sunny day, again. <br> Though the kids are getting pretty tired of sight-seeing, they seemed to be OK with a day on the boat. We brought lots of food, treats, books and games, so as to ensure a high morale.<br> These boat trips are very popular, and it soon became apparant why. The Rhine runs at the bottom of a steep-sided ...

... of the bushes. The traffic is pretty steady. So Kananaskis it is not.<br> On the other hand, the campground has excellent boat and train connections. The fast-train terminal is about a 10-minute walk down the road in Bacharach. The boat terminal is closer, just on the other side of the soccer field. You could be in any European capital in a few hours. You can't do that from Spray Lakes Provincial Park.<br> Tomorrow we plan to take the boat to Koblenz and back.

Today was a beautiful drive thru France into the Mosel Valley where we stopped at Zell for afternoon tea on the river, before we headed for the Rhine Valley to a camping platz on the Rhine at Bacharach, Camping Sonnenstrand . This will just about be our last hurrah in the camping car and fortunately it is a top spot. Cruise on the Rhine tomorrow.

... castle. The castle was built in the 12th century, but looks today like it did in 1472. We had to take an English tour to enter the castle which was a good thing because there were a lot of interesting facts and information of the rooms in the castle. Our group was small, but with our good luck (insert sarcasm) the most annoying couple attached themselves to us and would not shut up! The castle is still inhabited by the ...