Deutschland Travels

Hated to leave such a wonderful hotel in Worms but wine country was calling. The drive was more uneventful…thank God! We avoided some of the smaller roads and used the autobahn 61 up to Koblenz area, over to A48 and then the small two lane L98 down to Klotten. Because altstadts have small narrow streets, if possible, try to get a detailed map of the streets and the city. We stopped at the T.I. on 416 which follows the Mosel (pronounced MO-zuhl by the Germans not mo-ZELL) River. We found Gasthaus Castor and I parked the car while Melodie made contact to find our parking area. As you can see, the streets are very narrow and I parked up the hill where the dark car on the right is located from the hotel. The German host spoke no English. “Meine Frau sprichts Englisch aber Sie ist zum Werk.” So Melodie, with her famous French hand gestures, was able to explain I was in the car and we needed to park. Great! It’s through a gate right next door but that’s DOWN ...

Not much to write but pictures abound! Got smart. Emailed Altes Ruderhaus for late checkin and got a response quickly with directions on how to claim the key and get into our room. After a horrible night’s sleep in Gasthaus Centro, w e check out, pay our tab and head for the parking garage to hit the road.    OMG! From 10pm to 10am, the cost was 20 euro to park!!!   Off  to Worms with stops on the way since this will be a long four hour drive.    First stop, Triberg waterfall which is advertised as the highest waterfall in Germany at 500’.    Definitely impressive and fun to photograph. Went next to the Gutach Open Air Museum where 13 generations of one family lived and worked. The  land that was held by and handed down thirteen generations to their children to keep working the farm as it had been the generation before. I can't imagine such a devotion on the part of each of the subse...