Live, Love, Learn, Travel
Day six of our Rhine River Cruise was spent mainly in France. Our boat docked in Kehl, Germany, and so we loaded into buses to cross the bridge and head to the French side of the Rhine, for a day in Strasbourg. Strasbourg is in France’s Alsace region, known for both German and French traditions. […]
Day five of our Rhine River Cruise was spent in Germany. The boat docked in Mannheim, and then we boarded buses headed to Heidelberg. Heidelberg is Germany’s oldest university town and home to Heidelberg Castle. Although we didn’t visit the university, our tour guide was a grad student at the university. We did visit the castle […]
Day four of our Rhine River Cruise showed us the scenic views of the middle Rhine. We started our day in Koblenz, Germany, where we disembarked the boat and loaded onto buses to head to Marksburg Castle. Marksburg holds the distinction of the only castle in the Rhine Valley to never have been destroyed. Built […]
Day three of our Rhine River Cruise brought us to Cologne, Germany. This was a busy day in which we did three tours, and also my favorite day of the cruise. The boat docked in Zons, Germany, and we all disembarked and loaded into buses. It turns out buses move faster than the river boat, […]
Day two of our Rhine River cruise started with a stop in Kinderdijk, a province of South Holland, Netherlands. Kinderdijk is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its network of 19 windmills, built-in the 1700s. The windmills are still in operation today, and were designed to move water, as part of the flood-management system.
