New Pictures

Here at long last are some of the pictures from Tom and Kriss's trip here. Hey, it only took me a month to get them up...not bad! I should have put them up earlier because I can't remember where a lot of them are from! Especially the castles and little touristy towns!

The first slide show has pictures from Bad Neunahr, Boppard, Rudesheim and our boat ride on the middle Rhine (which just happens to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site). The boat ride was long but the scenery and all of the castles and little towns were really neat to see! Boppard and Rudesheim were both nice towns, I wish we would have had more time to explore them, I love all the little kind of small, touristy towns with little shops all over. There were tons of castles that we saw, but as the pictures show, I do not remember the names of them so they are all labeled "Rhine".

This slide show has pictures from Moselkern and Cochem, which are both towns on the Mosel. We stopped in Moselkern first, to see Burg Eltz, one of the most popular castles in Germany. It was very interesting, but I think that I still prefer Neuschwanstein. After we finished the castle tour we headed to Cochem which is one of the popular towns on the Mosel, there is castle that overlooks the town but we did not get a chance to explore it. We wandered around that town, bought LOTS of wine and had a great lunch at a little cafe. After we were finished shopping we headed to Trier, our final stop for the day. We stayed in Trier and got up early that morning and went to see the Black Gate and to one of the museums that is there.

These last pictures are from Brugges, Belgium. Which I now think is one of my favorite places in Europe. It is beautiful, has chocolate stores all over and the people are actually FRIENDLY which is rare for tourist towns. Brugges is a big tourist town, but compared to other touristy places I have been, Brugges didn't feel all that touristy. It is much prettier than Amsterdam with the canals running through the city. It is clean and there is lots to see for everyone. Kriss and I did some shopping while the guys went on a tour of a brewery. I think we stopped at at least five chocolate stores and I have to say none of them are better than Godiva. The only one that was close was the truffle chocolates at the Chocolate Line! Brugges is definitely a place that I will be going back to before we leave, if i can!