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| Tuesday - July 10 We walked to the train station in Kelsterbach after a very relaxed breakfast. We departed the train at the Roman Theater in Mainz, the first stop after crossing over the Rhine River. |
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| They are still doing archeological work at the site which dates from the 1st century AD. |
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| From here we wandered our way into the center of Mainz, destination the Gutenberg Museum. |
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| Doug said there was no way he was not going to take this picture. |
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| A little soccer mania. |
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| It may say spaghetti but it is really all about ice cream! |
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| We wandered so much that we decided to have lunch first. |
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| This looked like a fun way to get around town. |
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| We spent most of the afternoon at the museum but it does not allow pictures of the exhibits. Highlights this time (we came here in 2011 too) included a collection of tiny books (6,902 of them!), how gold leaf illustration is done, how fonts were developed, and a printing press demonstration. So interesting to really appreciate that the printing press was the revolutionary, disruptive technology of its time. These young soccer fans greeted us as we were leaving. |
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| The city of Mainz has such a friendly vibe and it was a wonderful place to spend Megan's last day with us. |
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| The train ride was very pleasant too. They do take bikes so that is another option to consider for tomorrow. When we got back, we watched Peter Sagan lose, by a hair, the sprint finish of Stage 4 of the Tour de France before we headed to dinner. |
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| The "girls" have been trying to have the most local beer available at the restaurants where we eat dinner. A very interesting aspect at this restaurant was being surrounded by people speaking at least 4 different languages. We watched the first half of the France/Belgium semi-final World Cup match, then returned to the hotel for the second half. France won 1-0, a hard fought match all the way to the end. |
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| The train and a lot of walking at each end. |
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