Sunday in Cologne plus a summary of the last few days

We had a lovely day yesterday cruising along the Rhine and enjoying all the castles! We have seen come wonderful sights along the way. On Wednesday we visited Rothenburg, which is such a lovely place. We had perfect weather too plus there are Christmas shops to enjoy! I came here in 1997 with Mum so it brought back good memories of our trip.

 We walked around a part of the old city wall.

On Thursday 15 September we visited Miltenburg which was another lovely German town.

Instead of visiting Frankfurt we chose to go to Heidelberg. We did drive around Frankfurt which was interesting. Heidelberg was beautiful!

On Saturday we visited Rudesheim, then sailed past so many castles on the Rhine (check Bruce's blog for good pictures) and then had a lovely short visit to Boppard.  In Rudesheim we went to a museum which has an amazing collection of music machines!

 We headed up on this cable car to see the misty view.

 Check out these beautiful cakes! So tempting even after a delicious breakfast on the ship.

We had a very pleasant afternoon of scenic cruising past the castles and then enjoyed a glass of new wine and a  beer for Bruce in Boppard.

We have been in Cologne today and have seen the famous cathedral in the rain. 

Regensburg to Bamburg

It is Tuesday here in Germany today and we have spent the morning in the lovely town of Bamberg. It has a nice old town and some spectacular churches. We managed to puchase some delicious hot chocolates and a piece of yummy torte with our limited German. It was a bit rainy but it wasn't too bad.

Over the last few days we visited Regensburg and Nuremburg. They were both very interesting cities. It was unbelievable to stand in Nuremburg on the Zeppelin field where Hitler held his huge rallies in the 1930s. The city had been very damaged in WW 11 and they have rebuilt the old town and the fort as they were before the war.

 This is where Hitler stood during those rallies, on the centre platform behind the small fence. Pretty amazing to see!

We also enjoyed Regensburg which was a very pretty town. At each place we go on a walking tour which is very informative. It is fascinating to hear about the history of each place.

The river cruise is lovely. We are eating far too much as there is so much choice!

Vienna, river cruising and Linz

We had 2 lovely days in Vienna wandering around.

 We really enjoyed these icecream sundaes! They looked a lot smaller in the menu!

That night we found a lovely Austrian restaurant and Bruce has schnitzel and I enjoyed bratwurst and sourkraut. Yum! 

We wandered a bit more during the next morning and then went onto our river boat and settled in. It was lovely to unpack! On the first day we went to Schonbrunn palace and then spent a lovely afternoon of scenic cruising.

 Bruce ran up the top and he is there somewhere. We also went into the palace which was lovely.

Today we visited Linz, which is where I was born many years ago. We went up the tallest mountain/hill and checked out the church and the view.

 We wandered around the old town.

 We also sampled some linzertorte at this lovely bakery.

The boat is lovely and the food is wonderful.

Cirencester

We are in Vienna but I must catch up on the last few places we visited in England. After visiting Upton House we headed to Bourton on the Water which was such a pretty place and we also found a yummy cream tea too!

We then drove through some lovely small villages to get to Bibury. These cottages are from the 16th century.

This B&B was named after William Morris who thought this village was one of the loveliest in England.

We then had a wet, cool morning in Cirencester checking out the museum and the town. We enjoyed seeing it all again. We visited over 30 years ago!

The parish church was beautiful. I am always amazed at the stitched cushions. They would be such a lot of work.

We head onto our boat this afternoon, which is exciting.