Rose and Ron Krumpos in Germany

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Germany

View of the Rhine from the dining room of Burg Rheinfels castle
Lufthansa invited us on their inaugural flight, San Francisco to Frankfurt, for hosting 25 German travel agents at the Stanford Court. We stayed two nights in Koblenz, a lovely 2,000 year old riverside city. There we had delightful dinner in Old Town at the popular Weinhaus Hubertus. Then we went by KD Line's ship to St. Goar, where we found the 56-room Schloss Hotel Burg Rheinfels...a converted castle perched on a hill. Its splendid dining room had a sweeping view of the Rhine River. Our large guest room had a king-size bed and tasteful decor.

A journalist for Bild in Hamburg stayed on in San Francisco to join us for a Thanksgiving dinner party at our home.

A 'heavy' lunch at medieval Altes Haus in Bacharach
We continued by KD Line, past Schönburg castle and Die Pfalz - a 14th century fortress on a tiny island - to Bacharach. There, we had a heavy German lunch at Altes Haus...medieval (1386), half-timbered and picturesque. The ship next went to Rüdesheim, a popular tourist stop, and on to Wiesbaden, where we were hosted by the renowned Hotel Nassauer Hof. Wiesbaden is a lovely spa city with class. We had an enjoyable lunch at the town's rathskeller and dinner at Mutter Engel (Mother Angel), then considered one of the best restaurants in Germany.

We went to Munich separately...Rose with her former roommate Nancy and Ron with a Lufthansa interline tour during Fasching (Carnival). Rose also visited Oberammergau - site of the famous Easter pageant - and Ron conducted a seminar for the InterContinental Hotel in Düsseldorf. Nancy and Rose went to Vienna and lnnsbruck in Austria. Ron's father's grandparents were all born near Prague in the 1800's...then part of the Austrian Empire. During a later business trip to Frankfurt we dined at La Truffe, the French restaurant in (Le Meridien) Park Hotel, with its General Manager.

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