Travel Day Thursday

Not grand and glorious things to report for Thursday as we took the train from Freiburg to Koblenz. It was Corpus Christi here so everything was pretty much closed except for transportation and the stores at the train station.

On the brighter side, the train followed the Rhine closely from Mainz up to Koblenz so we got to see all of the beautiful wine plants along the hillsides, as well as the numerous castles. We thought better of trying to get good pictures from the train since they likely would not have turned out very well anyway. We also figured that we would do a Rhine boat tour over the couple of days we are here. After some discussion in the afternoon we also figured we should try to rent bikes and ride along the Rhine as well since apparently the Rhine bike trails go all the way from Switzerland to the Netherlands. Now it is all just a matter of getting the weather to cooperate and that isn't looking promising at the moment.

Our hotel is on the Mosel river in Koblenz and from near the hotel you can get nice views of the city.