Day 21 Brannenburg – Bacharach
Where: Brannenburg – Bacharach, Germany
When: Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005
We got up around 2:30 am to get ready for their flight back home. Maria, Deanna, Don and Mary are leaving this morning for home while I’ll continue to travel for another week in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands.
It was hard to pack last night since we were all tired from festing and watching the Brannenburg Brass band perform outside our pension. It was a good way to relax in the cool evening with hot chocolate.
The taxi was waiting outside as we left the pension. We then picked up Don and Mary at Ursula’s as there was a tearfull goodbye from her. This very well could be the last time we see her, but I greatly hope not.
Our ride to the airport was uneventfull as everyone was sleeping for the most part.
At the airport, our driver asked for our check in papers and he ran into the terminal to make sure we were dropped in the right location.
He dropped us off at the Air France-KLM-Norhtwest location of Terminal 1. This airport is huge. Same or bigger than Minn. St. Paul.
Anyway, all the bagages cleared and they have their boarding pass. It was sad to see them go. But I think they are all ready to go home and sleep on their own bed.
I bid them farewell and have yet to know how their trip home went.
I then took the subway back to t. Got tickets to Bacharach on the ICE (fast train, yep over 100 mph). Made a change in Mannheim and Mainz. The train left Munich at 8:16 and I arrived in Bacharach at 1:30 ish.
I then proceeded to look for a room for the night. It took me 45 min to find one. The first three places I stopped were fully booked. Seems like Sept. is a month for most germans to go travelling.
I took another street back to the train station. My thought here is that if I don’t find a room from the city center to the train station I’ll hop on the train to the next town and get a room there.
The street parallels the main st. and I saw a hotel with a free room sign on it. I inquired inside and they have one room left. For a single with bathroom and shower on different floors. I had no choice I guess.
The room is very spartan in todays standards, bed, sink ,table chair and closet. The windows are 2″ thick glass as the room looks to the Rhine river and park but the railline is just 10 feet away from the window. Then I noticed that the hotel even provide earplugs for the guests. Oh Boy. There’s a toilet by the stairs, but the shower is in the next floor.
After booking the room. I went to the train station to get my ticket to Köln. The nice gentlemen who ran the station and tracks did the ticketing for me as I did not understand the instructions in German. After taking 10 min to figure it out myself, all I had to do was enter the city code in the ticket machine and it will tell you how much you owe. Insert the money and the ticket and change will pop out. This however did not tell you if there was any transfers to be made. So Luckilly he to told me about the change in Koblenz. Lucky there.
Booked a boat tour of the Rhine River from Bacharach to St. Goar. They say that this is the prettiest part of the Rhine. Because the Bluffs starts along the river and it is at it’s norrowest and deepest here. Saw the castle’s that gaurded the river in centuries past. Saw the touristy small towns along the river and the famous LORELEY.
Hopped of at St. Goer to get my first bite of food since OKtoberfest pretzels. Then hopped on the ferry back.
I did not do the Castle tours since I’ll plan to come back with Maria and do the tours with her. Got to save somethings for the next visit.
Got back to the hotel and showered by 8 and went to sleep with the windows shut and was awoke by the alarm this morning at 530. As the next train went by, that’s when I realized I must have needed sleep and rest badly, since those trains usually comes past by often.
Off to Belguim tomorrow with a stop in Cologne to see the world famous Cathedral of Köln.
Auf Wiedersehen and Auf Wiedersehen Deutshland!!!
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