Blogs from Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Lof is only 20 kilometres away from Lof, not really a very long journey and having plenty of time we made a visit to a castle on the way. It is high up on the mountain but we could reach it by car. Very limited parking on top but being lucky someone left that gave me a nice spot to put the car. The views were amazing. You could look down on the Mosel with on eider side the grapes covered the steep mountains. A few pleasure boats were making their way to where ever on the river. The castle was interesting. The entrée was just 7 Euro so not to bad. The medieval sphere is there when you walk around those enormous thick walls. The canons and weapons are shown everywhere. Time to go and ... read more

This was the last of France now we entering Germany. We are on the way to Worms. A lovely little place on the Rhine. We also choose this place for it was close to Family in Saarland. So much time we have not to stay there as well so Worms being so close was the best place to do all those things. We made a last stop in France at a bakery that also had coffee. A place to sit down and relax for we knew the next stop might not eventuate at all and we were right. Everybody started their holiday this weekend. It was chaos on the roads. Leaving France and arriving in Germany you are automatically transferred to autobahns or our GPS lady calls them motorways. We had files of kilometres long ... read more

lWe had a good run from Regensburg and were ready for a few family visits. Two cousins, one in Grundau and the other in Neunkirchen. Always nice to see the family again for we had so many good times in that part of the world. Our first visit was at Grundau. We stayed there the night only. Liz had a cousin there. Very nice reception as usual the coffee and kuchen is the main start to all the food they put in front of you. Next day we left for Neunkirchen. There is the main part of Liz family of her mothers side. Again so much food you can't eat it. The grilling, for us barbeque and the lioner sausages were marvellous. We made visits to Kirkel a small place close to Neunkirchen where we met ... read more

Wednesday 8 July 2015 Today is for meandering up one side of the River Rhine and down the other. We have made the brave decision to turn Polly off and find our own way using nothing but sheer Kiwi intelligence. There is a feeling of daring and anything could happen as we negotiate the roads leading to the east bank of the Rhine. A couple of attempts at connecting with the appropriate road and we were there close to the water, trying to snatch photo opportunities before they disappeared. Castles on hill tops, river views often with barges, sometimes two joined together, large river cruise boats, small river cruise boats, trains constantly running past, as well as car ferries taking the place of bridges, all these and more kept our cameras working hard as we made ... read more

We spend a few days at Boppard a lovely little place at the Rhine. We were here before and fell in love with the place. So much to see around here and having a hotel room with a balcony overlooking the river topped it of. Only problem is parking. You have to fight to secure a place. We were lucky to find a park in front of the hotel. The first day we did sight seeing around the place. Not much had changed apart from the wares the shops were selling. Time enough to look at that later. Late afternoon we sit down to look at the traffic on the Rhine with a glass of wine and a few nuts. Absolute marvellous. Plans are made for the next day and that was a visit to Braubach. ... read more