Moselle River

Everyone has heard of the romantic road through southern Germany, if you haven’t, it’s a road that travels through a list of very beautiful small towns that have castles, etc along the way. Instead of doing this we’ve picked the Moselle River route.

The Moselle is the Rhine’s peaceful little brother, it’s about 300 miles long and starts in France. The German bit is the bit we’re interested in. Also known as the Moselle wine route. Grapes are grown on the sides of the hill at angles of 65 degrees, with stone terraces….wow beautiful. There is of course castles, fortress, etc The river also heads off into France in the Lorraine and Alsace regions, where we want to see next.

One thing I’m getting to remember all the old 70’s music, everywhere you go that’s what they’re playing. A good friend in Oz told me to expect it.

Koblenz

This is the town at the junction of the Rhine and the Moselle rivers….the starting point. We took the bus from the park into Koblenz and had a look around. There was a cable car going up to the fort and always a church.

Cologne

Cologne, Germany

7th and 8th August, 2023

We spent a couple of lovely days seeing Cologne. The cathedral is huge and majestic, also free to enter. Cologne was also flattened during WW2, there is pictures of a totally flattened city with the cathedral standing in the middle. So there is very little in the way of old buildings.

So we spent out time doing birthdays, chocolate museum and the cathedral.

The Cathedral

I pinched this off the web….see how Cologne was flattened in WW2

Chocolate Museum

Golden Chocolate fountain contains 200kg of melted warm chocolate

Winning with birthday afternoon tea.

Soest- Germany

Cologne pushed back a day

We couldn’t get into the park we wanted because it was full, but they relented and let us in one day later. So we pulled into a small town called Soest. A very small town but lucky we did because we realised we needed a low-emission sticker for the part of Cologne where the park is in.

So we spent the day, getting a sticker from DEKRA and seeing the little town.

The DEKRA is like a motor inspection centre. The guy asked ‘are you tourist’ and then gave it to us for free. Saved us 18 euro….cool.

The little town takes about 10 minutes to walk across (small), but with two churches. The two churches are about 4 meters between them. One was being renovated and closed, but the other was open. The local brass band was practicing, it was very nice listening to them inside a big stone church.

There was also the local growers market on, so we picked up some fresh veg for dinner.