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We knew we wanted to walk the walls of Rothenburg as we hadn't had a chance to do that on our previous trip. It was absolutely fan...

The oldest monastic brewery in the world is essentially right between Garmisch and Rothenburg, so it was a perfect lunch stop. The loca...

Day 8 was mostly the long, long, drive from Freiburg to Munich. When we got to Munich it was chilly and a little bit raining, so we too...

We went to the Black Forest to eat Black Forest cake and Black Forest ham. We really had no idea what we were doing during this part of...

Felsenmeer means in German "Sea of Rocks."  Oh, yes. About an hour south of Frankfurt is an amazing boulder field , apparently ...

Trier was a surprise hit on the epic road trip, and the ampitheater was a surprise hit in Trier. I'm not sure what I was expecting,...

From Burg Eltz we headed, wearily, for our stop for the night, Cochem. We had great plans for Cochem, but in the end visited neither t...

From Cologne we planned some time in the Mosel River area, ostensibly for some more wine tasting although in the end we decided to keep...

We reached Cologne on Easter Sunday, which was fitting for the city whose most iconic sight to see is a cathedral. We wandered around...

For our second day trip, we hit the wineries. The weather was absolutely stunning, which was a wonderful reason to wander among the vin...