From Schloss Gold to the Schwarzwald (and a Rhine River rendezvous)
August 5th 2008 My tenth week in Europe (tuesday 29th July) started with a bus across the border into Germany, from Maastricht to Aachen - which despite being only a thirty kilometre trip somehow took an hour-and-a-quarter!?! Following my Lonely Planet to the letter, I set out on an entertaining little walk around the town centre which took me past half-a-dozen amusing little fountains, all of which portrayed a p
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