Hello! No, we haven't forgotten about blogging. We are in Amsterdam staying at a place we found on Air B&B, at which the internet is horrible! Like, super slow and spotty. So that's why we haven't written a post in a few days.
Since being in Amsterdam we have done a city walking tour, a bike country tour, the Van Gogh museum, the Rijksmuseum and a canal tour. We spent pretty much the whole day...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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We arrived in Köln, Germany (Cologne) yesterday. We are staying in a studio apartment that is less than a 5 minute walk from the cathedral. It's pretty nice being so close to the things we want to visit.
We decided to have dinner in a brauhaus both yesterday and today. A brauhaus is a beer hall and...
Monday, October 6, 2014
Hold on to your butts. . .
Today ya'll get a two-fer! Yesterday we took a river cruise down stream to St Goar (That's "Sankt Goar" in German, and pronounced "Sahnkt Gwhar.") St Goar sits below Rheinfels Castle. Today we rented a couple of bikes from the hotel, and rode them to a town called Bingen. On the way...
Saturday, October 4, 2014
BAHKH-ah-rahkh
We are now in BAHKH-ah-rahkh. Go ahead, say it. Bacharach. I feel weird pronouncing it like that, but people don't know what you're talking about if you say Bak-a-rak. Same with KOHKH-ehm, Cochem.
We didn't write a full blog post dedicated to our Burg Eltz experience, because it was more frustrating...
Thursday, October 2, 2014
A valuable lesson
Today we took a river boat cruise to Beilstein, about 1 hour away from Cochem. The cruise was beautiful and we even got to go through a lock. There were vineyards on the hillsides just about the entire way. The morning was foggy and the air was crisp and smelled good.
looking back on Cochem from...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
We found real Leavenworth!
Ok guys, look at this. This is the view from our hotel room!
We get the river view and the castle view. The castle you see before you is Reichsburg Castle to be precise. More on that subject in a minute. If you will allow me one small moment of griping though. The hotel we are staying in costs...