Today I think the fairly frenetic pace mom and I have been keeping is going to catch up with us. As you all know my body likes more than 7 hours of sleep a night and that’s all it has been getting.
We are up early enough, it’s 10 am as I write this, and we’ve had breakfast. We were planning on taking a river cruise, however, I think that plan got scratched. We are going to take a cruise or two with Udo when we meet up in a few days, so we’ve decided to just take the car along the river to our few highlighted spots of the day. First up on the agenda is visiting Niederwalddenkmal, a statue of Germania. According to my guide book the statue is 34 feet high and was built to commemorate victory of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, which resulted in German unification.
Niederwalddenkmal was pretty cool. A 34 foot high statue is really quite tall, especially when it is built high up on a hill. Today was a little hazy but the views over the Rhine and Bingen were still interesting.
Mom and I are now sitting at a little cafe for a late lunch in St. Goar. We slept on the east side of the Rhine, so in order to get to St. Goar we had to a take a cute little ferry from St. Goarhausen. The fairy runs all day back and forth across the river carrying tour buses, cars, bikers and pedestrians. We are sleeping on the east side of the river tonight, so we decided to ride over as pedestrians and just explore the town by foot. The town’s highlight was probably the (self proclaimed) world’s biggest beer stein shop. It’s now pushing 4 pm and our next stop is the castle in which we are staying tonight. It is called Castle Liebenstein and located in the town of Kamp-Bornhofen.
It’s crazy I am now writing to you from my bed, in a tower, in a castle. We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. This specific room was again recommended to us by Jim. It is tower room 5 and couldn’t be cuter. It’s tiny and there is barely enough room for mom and my bags but awesome nonetheless. I wouldn’t want to sleep here every night (there is no Internet or TV) but one night is awesome. We have a window that opens with two window seats. The view is spectacular even on this hazy day. We also have goats on the hillside outside our window. I am still super tired and think I am going to take a nap...
... my nap was awesome. I slept from 5 pm to 7 pm. We then went down to dinner. The lady of the castle had “reserved” us the window table in the dining room. The dining room has all kinds of knights in armor and other medieval things. I could try to describe the place in words but it is really more something that has to be seen. Dinner was random and super good. I ordered a german sandwich. It consisted of breaded turkey, bananas and pineapples, served open face, with a hollandaise like sauce. It was amazingly good and only a dollar more than the dang Chicken Caesar salad at McDonalds in Switzerland.
After dinner mom and I explored outside the castle a little more, watched our favorite baby goat play with his momma, and took a few pictures. The differences between traveling with mom and dad are funny. I asked mom to go take a picture of me atop a tower. She couldn’t really see me standing behind the wall, so I decided to climb on top of it. She freaked out and was certain I was going to die. The picture she took ended up being totally zoomed in and chopped off my head. The picture was an epic failure. She claims she was too nervous to take a good one. This made me laugh hysterically. She would have died had she seen some of the stuff dad and I tromped around on at Angkor Wat. It’s now 10:35 pm and time for bed.
Until tomorrow,
Katy
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