Germany Day 5.

Today I packed up my suitcase and said my farewells to Munich. It has been a lovely city. Sigh. I took a four hour drive to the Rhine River. I drove my car up to this really large, fairly old looking ferry, that took tourists up the Rhine to a town called Bonn, where I'd spend the night. First, however it would stop off at a castle near the town of Koblenz, which is on the way there. The river its self was beautiful, with clean, greenish blue water, and a fresh, wet smell. There is quite a lot of traffic in the Rhine further up, but where we were, we only saw a couple of barges an hour. As we passed them, the captain gave a brief history of the castles along the banks. Some of them are museums, some of them are private homes, and others are complete ruins! There was even one on a small island that looked like a ship, but that was probably just me. We stopped off at Burg Lahneck, which is at the mouth of one of the Rhine's numerous tributaries. It was a cool old castle, and we had a lot of funlooking at the old kitchen, the bedrooms, and sitting rooms of the castle. We Went through Koblenz, and up a couple pf hours more to Bonn. It was a nice city, But I liked Munich more. My hotel was about a block away from the ferry dock, so I didn't have to drive my rental that far. My whole room is yellow, and smells of lemons and wildflowers, which is nice, but a bit over the top. Tomorrow I will go to Berlin on the ICE, or the fast train, and leave my rental car here... Did you know Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany? Burg Lahneck Where our ferry docked in Bonn.