When those cool Viking commercials air, we always wondered if the views would be as beautiful as they claim. Well, today we can definitively say that the claims about the beauty of the Middle Rhein are true! Nothing I can say or show with my limited photographic skills would do justice to how beautiful and peaceful it is to cruise this area. Our day started with a stop at the Marksburg Castle, which is the only castle on the Rhein which was never destroyed in war. Built in the 1200s and expanded over the next 400 years, it really looks like something you would expect from a period movie. Getting to it is treacherous because the "steps" are really just cut rough cut outs in the stone. Getting up was bad and coming down just as
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