Rhein Hotel Bacharach
Langstr. 50, Auf der Stadtmauer, Bacharach am Rhein Bacharach, Rhineland-Palatinate, 55422, Germany
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Christmas in Germany
For the past few weeks we have been enjoying several German Christmas traditions -- including visiting numerous Christmas Markets, St Nicolas day (6 Dec) and even had our First Snow day just a few days before Christmas.
Of course - being away from home, we miss our own traditions and this year we embarked in attempting to make tamales at home. They came out great !!!
Miss ya :)
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Market Madness
Mainz
Another re-built city on the Rhine, Mainz is most famous as the home of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the movable-type printing press in 1456. We started our brief time here with a visit to the Gutenberg Museum. We watched a demonstration of the printing process on a replica of the early hand press. Most significantly, we saw one the few (maybe there are 46 of 180) remaining original Gutenberg Bibles – simply beautiful. We learned ...
Wiesbaden (last weekend...)
... middle of it, and it looks really cool! after that we did some more sightseeing around Frankfurt - a chinese garden, a massive statue called 'the hammering man' (a figure of a man that has a moving arm that slowly hammers) and things like that. then in the evening we went to another Christmas market! but then we slowly made our way home- it was so cold and a really tiring day!
On Sunday morning, we got up early again and took a train ...
Back home
... that I'm back I notice how fast one gets used to a new situation. I still remember when I arrived in Canada. My host family picked me up from the airport and everything was so new. The highway was huge and empty and the cars we saw were big trucks and jeeps. There were trees everywhere and it took us about half an hour to get to my host family's house although it was still the same town.The town itself, all the shops and houses looked different and when I looked out of the ...
Bacharach castle hostel
... We reach the top and are greeted with amazing views of the Rhine going off each way, ok it's worth it. We are getting excited because this place is amazing. We check in and get our key and go to our room. We have a very large room that is set up for 8 people but we will have it to our selves. It has a private bath and shower, modern and clean in this ancient building. The room has two banks of 4 windows ...


