Chathedral of Cologne

Today we went to Koln Dom Cologne Cathedral. Construction started in 1248 and finished after 632 years. It seats on the Rhine river at Koln. The treasury is down in the basement it displays many catholic relics, vestments and chalices. It has gothic spires wait till you see the pics. Tomorrow we head to Humburg for 3 nights.

Aachen Cathedral

We drove to Aachen yesterday about 133 kl. The cathedral is were the Pope came to crown the king of Europe. Until England broke away from the Church. It was started in 785 by Charlemagne. Between 936-1531 29 German kings were crowned here. Beautiful stained glass.

Mosel River

Today we visited Cochem and Bernkastel-Kurs
Cochem has a castle on a hill and lots vineyards. I found some cheap embroidered tablecloths and bought some Birkenstock's.
Bernkastel-Kurs is very old some of the buildings were built in the 1300-1700's Very narrow streets the building almost touch.
The Mosel has heavy boat traffic you see lots a barges many with coal heading for France. They are so large families live on them full time, along with there cars,playsets for there children.

Mosel River

Today we visited Cochem and Bernkastel-Kurs
Cochem has a castle on a hill and lots vineyards. I found some cheap embroidered tablecloths and bought some Birkenstock's.
Bernkastel-Kurs is very old some of the buildings were built in the 1300-1700's Very narrow streets the building almost touch.
The Mosel has heavy boat traffic you see lots a barges many with coal heading for France. They are so large families live on them full time, along with there cars,playsets for there children.

Berlinger Germany

We are here in Berlinger Germany near the Mosel river this river flow into the Rhine river. The hoch's have family here so it will be our base for the next 4 days we will be exploring some small villages. We left the borgenee lake 2days ago where it rained ,it was still beautiful and saw some of the alps as we left the next morning.

Germany

We are in Germany. We have been to the edge of the Alps, seen alpine lakes, clocks, castles, salt mines. We did a tour of a salt mine & did a slide down two levels. What fun!! Tomorrow we head to the Mosel river for about 5 days. Then on to Hamburg and home.

Siena and back to Rome

We stopped in Siena on the way back to Rome. Walled city sitting on a hill there is a shell shaped piaza where they race horses around. Then we returned back to Rome and flew out this morning on to Munich Germany