Koblenz Hostels

... amount of Flor de Cana (and some other miscellaenous rum that came in gallon jugs and was dubbed 'Duncan'), so I arrived in Koblenz with several more smuggled bottles. Koblenz is a fairly nice German town of around 100,000 with a small university. On ...

After our "exciting" one night stay in Frankfurt we caught a bus to Koblenz then decided (well I did, Ken tagged along) to go on a river cruise from Koblenz to Mainz through the Rhine Valley ... there were loads of castles, fields, castles, fields ... oh ...

... are the castles 28 in all right through.Many of these castles had been converted into hotel or bed and breakfast or youth hostels places some had multiple uses.  When they were built by the KIngs they were financed by levying all river ...

... we had already passed through earlier in the day) which would have been fine had we got on a train that was actually going to Koblenz! Unfortunately, we did manage to get on the wrong train but didn't realise until after we got off it, an hour later. So ...

... and went all over town. Also browsed around in the world's largest CD store (no, I resisted buying anything). I'm finding the hostels I'm at have locals traveling so most people don't speak English (at least as their first language). It's definately ...

... at Mainz we learned that we had just missed their ferry so another train to Bingen got us onto the Koln-Dusseldoef ferry to Koblenz. We were impressed as this was a very scenic part of the Rhine and the river banks were dotted with small German villages ...

... to the house. We lunched by the side of the Rhine with the Koln cathedral in the background and after finishing, we headed of towards Koblenz via Bonn, the capital. When is a capital not a capital. When it is Bonn in Germany. We knew it was heading back ...

... time I got to bed it was another case of over 40 hours on the go with no sleep. Saturday 3rd July Up early, train to Koblenz, then a six hour cruise along the Rhine. Six hours was too long, three would have been fine, but the scenery was amazing. It was ...

... I couldn't get a hold of Rene. It's the freakin' carnival for christ's sake and if I'm going to have to spend money on hostels, might as well go somewhere ELSE other than Hamburg. I'll be spending a lot of time in Hamburg anyway, and I'll have an ...