Moselkern, Germany July 28, 2012 Last night a thunderstorm spent some time with us. This morning, it is cloudy but not raining. We got up early as we are taking a train to Moselkern, where we will hike about 3 miles or so to Burg Eltz Castle. Hopefully, we stay dry but we pack the […]
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Year: 2012
On the Mosel
Cochem, Germany July 27, 2012 Another good breakfast of cold cuts, bread and jam, and we tried the hard boiled egg they gave us. It was still warm but very good. The yolks here are more of orange color so either they use less preservatives or additives in their chicken food or a whole […]
Day 3 in Bacharach
Trechtingshausen, Germany July 26, 2012 We started today with another cold cut breakfast. Made two sandwiches to go, for lunch, and also brought some cheese wedges they had. Walk to the train station for the short ride to Trechtinghausen. Two stops later (10 minutes), we are there and decided to walk along a bike path […]
St Goar and Oberwesel
Oberwesel, Germany July 25, 2012 “Unfulfilled dreams become regrets, and I intend to have as few as possible” I don’t know where I got this from but I like it- Charlie We got a nice quiet nights sleep last night and were able to sleep in a little today. Our hotel has breakfast included so […]
Rhine River Cruise
Braubach, Germany July 24, 2012 “The wise traveler knows not to repeat successes, but to travel to new places all the time” Something I have always felt-Charlie Today was one of those days that make you want to travel and explore more. Everything goes as planned and you see great sights, meet great people, and […]
The German Adventure Begins
Cologne, Germany July 23, 2012 Today we will leave Belgium and start our German adventure. Belgium was extremely good to us. We boarded our two car train for our trip to Aachen, Germany. There was one first class car and one second class car. We learned yesterday that the cars are marked on the outside […]
Brugge to Liege
Liege, Belgium July 22, 2012 After a relaxing morning packing up our backpacks, we headed back into the town of Brugge. We first did the boat tour through the canals of Brugge. It was great and even received the Rick Steves group discount. It is always good to put more money into the beer fund. […]
Biking to Holland
Sluis, The Netherlands July 21, 2012 Slept good last night and since it was a bit wet out from late night rains, we snoozed a little more in the morning. We got out around 10:00 and walked next door to the market to buy some breakfast and lunch for our bike ride today. It was […]
Museums and Friends From Holland
Brugge, Belgium July 20, 2012 As tired as we were last night, we both just slept OK. Still adjusting to the time change. We kept rolling over and finally got up and out around 10:30. Todays plan was to do some museums. However, it is always most important to feed Carol so we stopped for […]
Arriving in Belgium
Brugge, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium, Thursday, July 19, 2012 July 18th/19th What a day! After yesterday where everything went smooth, we reverted to a popular rule of travel where it rarely goes smooth and as planned two days in a row. We arrived at JFK a little after 3:00 PM. Security, no problem; choosing pizza for […]