We were planning to have a birthday weekend away, and Ms. Rona ruined all the plans, and we are literally terrified to book flight anywhere, so in between wines arrangement and beautiful crafted meals, we decided to have a road trip to fairy tales German village, Koblenz.
Mind you, driving in Germany during the summer is a hit or miss, as everywhere you go you will stuck with road construction, and long and depressing jam everywhere, but It didn’t ruin our mood, as we got lots to talk and laughed about, and of course talked about favorite subjects, food and travel.
Drove through hilly and green road, we passed by beautiful views, gave us a happy mood, in almost no time we entered the city of Koblenz with Ephie yelled out loud, “Look !!!Church “ J
Located at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle Rivers, Koblenz has a very strategic position. t may seem a small city, but Koblenz has a lot to offer. In the middle age the city was the main point for controlling the trade both on the Rhine and Moselle rivers. Walked toward the old town we passed by the Electoral Palace, we didn’t go inside, as we have really short time, but it looks picturesque and friendly , plenty people using the garden as picnic area with children, nowadays this palace offer rooms for party and meetings.
Crossing the street to Jesuitenplatz, this square in the middle of old town, takes its name from the Jesuit order, which was in Koblenz for about 200 years, until expelled in 1773 ( source: Wikipedia). Cozy square to have drink and people watching, but we were moving forward to get our lunch at the Brauhaus ( typical German pub) little we know they served huge meals you can easily eat for four. We have been attacked by the meat , huge ribs and liver sausages ( Ryoko thought it was bratwurst ….. lol) , but my friend Ryoko bravely ate her sausages, whilst I almost finished her mashed potatoes and left my own roasted potato untouched, I am still get nightmare from my huge food, I used to travel in USA, and used with huge serve of meals but the one we have in Koblenz, really was giant, I wondered if someone ever ate them all. Poured down our light beer to our stomach and contented, we said our goodbye to very nice lady sat next to us, and navigate our way to the river side of the city.
Whilst exploring the old town, we came across many place of interests, one of the particular is the Alte Burg ( or Old Castle) it was a formal castle dated around the 13thcentury was partially built on the ruin of the late Roman city wall dated to the 4th century.
Bumped to Deutsche Eck, the 37 metre monument was destroyed during the world war and only been reconstructed after 1993. The view from this corner mesmerizing, this is the corner where the Rhine and Moselle river converge, we continued our walk to the cable car, brought us to the Fortress, from above you will have a superb view over the town. This Fortress is the second largest preserved fortress in Europe and was established as Roman military post around 8 BC ( source: Wikipedia). The view from this fortress has been listed n Unesco list. I highly recommend to take this cable car, even though I closed my eyes the whole 5 minutes and screaming and cursing as I have a fear of high.
My favorite site was Schangelbrunnen, just before entering the old town, there is a fountain show a boy spitting water. There is a story about this boy spitting water, but I am too lazy to search it , sorryJ
There were plenty of places to visit, but we made our way towards the hotel for a quick rest and get dressed for dinner and few drinks, almost everywhere were fully booked and we were lucky enough to get a place in a nice restaurant, served by a jolly and happy young fella, we ordered a local wine, I can tell, It was really tasty, togetherwith tasty flamkuchen and antipasti’s. it was a blessed to have a nice dinner with friends, they are as close as family to me.. until Ryoko showered me with a glass of tasty cocktail, soaking wet to my undergarment, I laughed and laughed and got sober almost immediately. The mission was to see Ryoko get wasted but we didn’t manage, fear not there are plenty of times to do it J. We closed this beautiful Saturday with laughter…….
Waking up as fresh as daisy, took lunch before leaving this quaint town and experienced an awesome Mother nature mood, from an awesome blue sky to thick cloud and rained with hard wind in the next second to a clear blue day all in 15 minutes time range, it put a perspective, everything can change in a nano second, the only thing we can do is enjoying our life as much as possible and not ever think of everything…..
Koblenz, thank you for having us, July 26th.
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