Koblenz; Sunday, 31 July, 2011

First stop of the morning was the station and the train south a little way down the Rhine Gorge to the town of Boppard. Here, above the town is a spectacular view point over the Rhine, which thanks to the topography of the hills manages to make the Rhine, one of Europe’s most important rivers appear as four unconnected lakes.

There are two ways to reach the view point. An hours stiff uphill climb, or 20 minutes sitting in a chairlift all the way to the top. Needless to say it didn’t take much encouragement to get into the lift.

Having taken in the views I headed back into Koblenz and up to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress to take in both the museums up there and the remainder of the garden festival that I hadn’t already seen.

I spent a long time wandering around the museums and the site, and in the end only just caught the last shuttle bus of the evening back down into town.

Exhausted from a long day’s meandering I headed back to the hotel to pack and then get a good night’s sleep.