Our last and final day in France. Tomorrow we will be on our way back to good old Germany. We started our day early and went out so visit one of the most famous castles of the Loire: The Chateau de Chambord. Luckily we were quite early, so there were not many tourists there yet and we had some more time and space to walk around. The castle was originally build in the 16th century and was later renovated. It belonged to the French kings and was used as a hunting lodge. We had a quick walk through the rooms and from the roof we were able to see the large and wide gardens. The castle was surrounded by forest and grassland and on one of them there was an international hunting exhibition on at that ... read more

We arrived in Reims in the early afternoon and went right away to the most important sight in the city: the Cathedral of Reims. Completed in the 15th century it used to be the crowingchurch of the french kings. Since 1991 it is UNESCO world heritage. We visited the inside and rounded the church to see the impressive outside as well. Sadly we didn't have enough time to see more of the city itself, because we still had quite a distance to take to go to Paris and didn't want to get stuck in the rushhour.... read more

We started our excursion to France very early and after driving through western Germany and Luxembourg, we crossed the French border. Our first stop was the city of Metz, in the Lorraine region. We had almost the whole day to discover this rather small, but very beautiful city. The first sight we visited was the Cathedral of Metz (Saint Etienne de Metz) from the 16th century. The inside is very impressive, but reminded us a lot of the Dom or Cathedral in Cologne as well. We continued from there and walked through the mayor part of the city, passing stores and houses. Finally we reached our destination: the main railway station (Gare de Metz-Ville). We went inside and passed the main hallway and visited the tracks as well. The station was build by the Germans and ... read more

This coming day was all about nature. We started out from the harbour of St. George's, the capital and went into the mountains to see some fantastic wildlife. Grenada is a very green and beautiful island and the flowers are impressive (see photos). At a farm we learned about cacoa and how they are harvested. We drove all the way to Gouyave, the second biggest city of the island to visit a nutmeg factory. We saw how they are dried, cracked open, sorted etc. Quite interesting to see, even though non of us really liked nutmeg. Because of this we passed quickly through the store inside the factory where many tourists bought fresh nutmeg but also nutmeg oil etc. Even though it was nice, I wish happy to be out of there because the freshly cracked ... read more

Bon Bini! Welcome to Bonaire. Today we stopped at the beautiful island of Bonaire. Other than Aruba for example, Bonaire does not have too many tourists (yet?!), but the nature is very impressive. There are way more Dutch than Americans here and we really got the impression that we are in a way more "natural" place, which kept its own charme. From the capital Kralendijk we started all around the island. We saw wild flamingos and goats, passed the huge saltfields and the beautiful coral beaches. Our first stop was at the old slavehuts and we were able to look and also crawl inside, and I really mean crawl. They were very tiny and you could get a real feeling how the slaves had to live back then. After a small stop on a lovely beach, ... read more