Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 881

Stop Two - Paul Streng Winery As we made our way back to Rothenburg, we stopped at a small winery in Sulzfeld. This was a suggestion from our innkeeper at the B&B. Good thing we had GPS in the car or we would have never found it. The vinter’s name was Tobias Streng. His family owned this winery. They handle all aspects of their wine, from harvest to bottling. He was very friendly and spoke English. Yah! Their wine was very good and only 4 Euros for the “very good” stuff and 3 Euros for just the “good”. Needless to say, we bought 3 bottles of each and some of their brandy. I hope some of it makes it home! Stop Three - Rothenburg The main square of Rothenburg was within 5 minutes. We watched a ... read more

Tuesday, the 20th of June Our original plan when we walked the 2km down to the train station yesterday was purchasing tickets to Triere, and we’d ride from there to Köln. We looked at the map again before bed, and realized we’d blown our math again and couldn’t make it to Köln. Math is hard! So, when we got to the train station this morning we spent 20 minutes or so getting the tickets exchanged for Cochem, quite a bit further down the river. The Luxembourg train station has an AMAZING amount of traffic going through it! Luxembourg’s population basically doubles during the workday with all of the workers for the European Union government commuting in from surrounding countries, mostly by train. While we were on the train we met a 67 year old retired German ... read more

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We decided to leave Munich a day early for Nuremburg, the site of the final US first round game which would decide America's fate in the tournament. The guys initially grabbed a seat in a smoking car of the train and ended up staying there because they had found four seats together. I found an empty seat in a smoke free car next door, so I stayed there and read. When we got off the train a couple hours later, Adam said something about Josh getting his own room. Apparently there was a tiff about hotel points for the night and a separate "rough housing" incident between the two on the train didn't help the situation. After some heated discussion in the hotel room Josh left to "find himself another room." In reality, that meant going ... read more

We'll be arriving in Frankfurt and driving to Rothenburg ob der Tauber for two nights. ... read more