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| Friday - July 13 The church bells started ringing at 6:00 after a very quiet night. Doug did his best to ignore them and no hearing aids in his ears helped! |
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| Donna explored the restroom's art. |
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| It included these two pictures of the campground during a flood event. Wow...that is a LOT of water! |
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| It was a very quiet morning and we were probably the first ones to leave the campground. |
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| Downtown was quite a bit more lively and the local bakery was a fine place for breakfast #2 to supplement breakfast #1 which consisted of yogurt and a croissant. |
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| Not sure what kind of hardwood that is but those are very straight logs and a log truck was not something we expected to see this morning. |
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| It took us awhile to get out of town as the road crossed the railroad tracks and 5 trains passed before the we could continue on our way. |
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| We did expect to see lots of vineyards..... |
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| and barges.... (Mouse Tower in the background, restored in the 968) |
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| and CASTLES! (the 7th C) This is the Ehrenfels Castle which served as hiding place for the treasures of the Mainz Cathedral during the wars of the 15th century. |
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| A bit of wine art in Assmannshausen. |
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| Rheinstein Castle (#2) |
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| #3 - Reichenstein Castle, built over a 1,000 years ago, destroyed in 1282. |
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| #4 - Sooneck Castle, built in 1010 |
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| #5 - Furstenberg Castle |
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| This view brought back fond memories. We stayed in Bacharach in 2011 and walked up to the ruins of St.Werner's Chapel (dark brown columns by town). That is Stalneck Castle (#6) on the horizon which is now a youth hostel. |
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| #7 - Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, a former customs tower from the 14th century. |
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| Lunch at Benno's Truck Stop in Kaub. The meal was huge...we should have shared! That is Gutenfels Castle (#8) on the horizon. |
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| Church of Our Lady in Oberwesel. |
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| St. Martin's Church on the right and the remains of the old city wall in Oberwesel to the left. Not quite castles but still very impressive architecture. |
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| Being on this side of the Rhine gave us a chance to see this statue of Loreley up close as we had only seen her from afar before. |
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| Katz Castle (#9) above St. Goarshausen |
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| Barrel Cabins! |
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| Headed back to the west side to spend the night in Boppard. |
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| Our kind of place! |
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| The view from our table at dinner. |
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| Then we wandered around town since we have only passed through before. |
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| What a day......the Middle Rhine is pretty hard to beat when it comes to bike touring along a river. |
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