Gutentag.

This morning was another early morning at 8am. We boarded the bus and seat rotation began. There was no one sitting in front of mum and I, so I moved seats and now mum and I have our own! Wooh. We left Belgium and crossed over the border into Luxembourg. Unfortunately we didn't get to stop in Luxembourg but it was good seeing the change in landscape again. Houses became very colourful, actually reminding me a bit of Italian style houses. It was all so green too with massive rolling hills.

Then over the border into Germany and a landscape of wind mills. There are literally thousands of them. The house style didn't change much, but there were more buttercup fields and we passed through bigger forests.

Passing through Belgium

On the border

Into Germany

Our first stop was in Trier, a town on the border between Luxembourg and Germany. The town is quite small, but with beautiful, old architecture. There were markets on when we arrived (although I got the feeling they're on everyday). Mum and I explored some of the town before grabbing massive sandwiches at a bakery and sitting on an old monument in the very centre of the town. I also spent the day picking up German words and using them as much as possible. I now know how to say hello, yes, no, I want, dog, thank you, your welcome, welcome, exit, and a few others. I got a little excited with my new found language skills and started saying no everywhere.

Porta Nigra

Trier

Mum at the lunch bakery

Trier town square

Me trying to be German...

Pretzels everywhere!

A German lady

Many meats

A pretty bike!

Silly German sausage dog

We then headed on towards the Frankfurt area with a stopover in Mosel with an amazing view of the river. As we were nearing Bad Homburg (bad means bath) we got our first look at the Rhine which is flooded at the moment. Our optional Rhine cruise has actually been cancelled. And flooded it was! On one side of the bank, we could only see the roof of a house. The water was also a muddy colour. We drove the way our cruise would have gone so we still saw all of the castles we would have seen anyway so it wasn't too big of a deal. I just saw a deer in the Black Forest as I'm writing this! Anyway, the castles were all postcard like, on top of mountains and such.

German towns

Flooded Rhine

Castles everywhere!

Mosel

When we arrived in Freidreschdorf, it was about 7pm, with a set dinner at 8pm. This hotel was also a bit out of the centre of town and as it was quite late, we couldn't really go anywhere so mum and I went exploring the nearby fields. They were beautiful, and mum took some creeper photos of me! 

Dinner was nice and we got to meet some of the other people on the tour. I've developed a bit of a taste for beer. European beer has a much lighter taste than Ausfralian beer. It doesn't leave as much an aftertaste in your mouth as so is easier to drink. Mum and I had half a litre of German beer each with dinner.

Afterwards, mum and I headed down to the hotel pool (and we had it all to ourselves). Although there were some naked ladies in the relaxation room. We then headed for the sauna which, I can now say, I don't enjoy very much.

German Fields

Being a creeper...

Din din beers