Day 7 in Paris - Still in Germany

We are just loving our time traveling along the Moselle River. In the early morning, Craig got up to go bird watching. Walking through the cemetery that wraps a small church was a memorial to the citizens of the small town that lost their lives in the two world wars. Did Craig take a picture? Of course not.

On our way to Burg Eltz we walked to a high point over the river. That is the town of Moselkern between Mikel and Angela and a campground on the opposite side of the river.

First stop; Burg Eltz is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River. It is still owned by a branch of the same family that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago. This was probably Mikel's favorite site during our stay in Germany. The only negative might be the walk to get there and back.

Second stop; Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a fortress on the same-named mountain on the right side of the Rhine opposite to the town of Koblenz. Didn't take any pictures there as it was raining pretty good our whole time there. From its western end we had fantastic views of Koblenz and Deutsches Eck.

Third stop; Deutsches Eck (German Corner) is a spit of land at the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine. An equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I was erected here in 1897. Wish we had more time to explore Koblenz, but we had so little to see and too much time. Wait . . reverse that.

After leaving Koblenz, we headed to Bad-Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. This consists of two parts, Bad Neuenahr in the east and Ahrweiler in the west. They were united in 1969.

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The older part of the city is encircled by a walled fortification. Above is the crew up on the wall. We stayed at another bed-and-breakfast a short walk from the town square. The immediate area included may fine examples of half-timber homes and shops. We started our quest to find jerseys of the German soccer . . er . . football squad.