Castles!

One of the days, while staying with the Majers, Joerg took us and we drove down the river and saw the castles that were built along the river. As you drive down the side of the river there are about 60 castles. There was even one castle in the middle of the river. It was probably easy for that guy to collect taxes from the people using the river. The castles were very cool. Although we didn’t go in to any of the castles it was a lot of fun to drive around and look at them all. Therewere some really funny castle names. For example one castle on one side of a hill was name Cat and the castle on the other side of the hill was name Mouse. Then there are 2 other castles they belong to brothers. And it is said that the brothers were fighting because there is a fence between the two castles. So those two castles are called the Fighting Brothers.

We also saw a big boat that had tipped over on one of the sharp turns. The turn was called the Loralay curve. We stopped on the way back and went to this cool place where you were on top of the curve and took a picture of the statue of Loralay.

The boat was carrying tons and tons of Sulfur. So they had to figure out how to empty the boat’s cargo without ruining the river. The boat had blocked the way for a lot of other boats to get by. The boat had apparently been stuck there for a few days. So that was interesting to see.

We went to the point where the Rhein River meets the Mosel And we stood at that point. There was a cool statue there. So all in all it was a really great day! It was really fun to see the beautiful rural area of Germany.