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Castles
After a late morning walk around Echternach lake, followed by lunch at the youth hostel, we did an improvised tour of some castles in the area:
- Bourglinster
- Schoenfells
- Ansembourg
- Hollenfells
Bourglinster
This is pretty much up the hill from where we live, drove passed it many times, but never visited.
Ansembourg
A nice garden arrangement can be found around this castle, but it's forbidden to dogs!
Hollenfels
Hidden in the woods, we did not go up since it is temporarily closed.
Schoenfels
This is a photo I took a few years ago, in the Summer (still cloudy though).
Koblenz and Cochem
We spent a night in Koblenz, the city where the Moselle and the Rhine merge at the "Deutschen Eck". Koblenz came across as a nice place to visit, but perhaps not on a cold winter's day. It was carnaval weekend in this part of Germany, meaning there were preparations for the processions that take place on Rosenmontag.
Following a night at the Wohngut Hotel on the outskirts of Koblenz, a nice reasonably priced place, but with beds not terribly comfortable, we headed to Cochem to look at the castle there. Following a guided tour of the castle, we headed back home.
Overall this was a nice short weekend away, but this part of the world is not really suited to tourism in Ferbruary. It even snowed on the Monday morning. A lot of things were shut (such as the cabel car across the Rhine in Koblenz) and on the Monday it was hard to find a restaurant open in the afternoon, given that Monday's are traditionally a day off for restaurants.
Koblenz
The Kaiser-Wilhelm monument at the Deutschen Eck.
This is not a clock, but a water level meter. The Rhine was at 4.90m.
The Deutschen Eck, where the Moselle and the Rhine merge, seen from the castle across the river.
Cochem
This knight's plate armour was about 2.2m tall.
Cambridge
A day trip to Cambridge whilst visiting K1 who had dislocated her knee the week before. She seemed to be getting around quite OK already. We spent about 7 hours walking around the town. Including a pub lunch at the The Mitre pub on Bridge Street. I'd forgotten what your average food and ale in a British pub tastes like. Uncooked, dirty veg, salty battered fish, almost no meat in the meat pie, flat tasteless pale ale. All for 50 quid not including the 12.% obligatory discretionary service charge. What a joy!
Otherwise visiting Cambridge was a nice day out on a wet chilly day. At least it didn't rain.
Trinity College
In fact not where Stephen Hawking got his PhD, which was in Trinity Hall. Go figure.
Mathematical Bridge
Alan Turing
Corpus Clock
