Jul 14, 2012 - Castles on the Rhine

We spent over 2 ½ hr. topside watching and photographing the beautiful scenery of towns and castles on the Rhine from Koblenz to Rudesheim. We were seeing the same “Romantic Road” territory but from the water this time – and loving it. Note: I've tried to be accurate when naming the castles but there were so many and with the two of us taking photos I may have gotten some of them confused. (You should be able to enjoy them whether you know their names or not, right?)

Jul 14, 2012 - Rudesheim

After lunch on the boat I went on the bus for a tour of Scholoss Vollrads (castle and winery). We saw 3 elegant rooms and were served a different Riesling wine in each room: a dry wine in the 'leather wallpaper' room, a semi-dry in the castle hall, a sweet (and very good!) in the French-decorated salon. It was a fun and different way to have a wine tasting experience. Meanwhile Ivan decided to skip another wine tasting and went to the tourist center for a map of town. He bought a one-way ride on the cable car to the top of the 'mountain'...