Category Archives: Germany

    We arrived in Cologne on June 12th. Got to town shortly before 9 AM and got the guided tour of the center of the city, the Roman – Germanic Museum and the Cathedral.         The … Continue reading →

(pictures finally uploaded!) After sailing all day yesterday, we arrived on the Rhine and Rudesheim this morning. This the beginning of the Middle Rhine and where the Robber Barons of the Middle Ages established  castles along the river to extort … Continue reading →

Today was sailing day – stops except in the locks! I caught up on posting Rothenburg photos. Later in the day we did have a demonstration of glass blowing. In the evening after dinner we had a game of Majority … Continue reading →

  Yesterday we sailed to Wurzburg. In the morning some of us took the coach to “fairy-tale” city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The city is completely surrounded by a wall with several entry gates. St Jacob’s Cathedral above. Then there … Continue reading →

We were off to town at 9:30 this morning on June 8th, for our colorful walking tour of Bamberg. We viewed the Green Market, which is open 6 days a week. Observed white asparagus -normal here, the think green asparagus is … Continue reading →

After leaving the town of Regensburg, we entered the beginning of the Main-Danube Canal at Kelheim. It is about 106 miles. and has 16 locks. We crossed over the continental divide at about 5:30 this morning and have passed through … Continue reading →

Today we walked around in the village of Regensburg and toured the Palace of Turin and Taxis. No pictures were allowed inside the palace .After leaving the palace we walked through the farmers’s market and then waited in line at the … Continue reading →

We arrived in Passau on the afternoon of June 5th- Inn River on left and Danube on the right, and took a tour of the village. Apparently, the village has a theme every week. This week, it has to do with  … Continue reading →