Some of our avid followers have been clamouring for more posts :-) Apologies for the long delay in posting pics from our current trip to Europe! It's just been such a joy of sight seeing and touring that I haven't made time to get to blogging. Let me remedy that now and start with our flight over.
KLM basically closed their boarding gate too early in Hong Kong so even if our flight from Manila hadn't been delayed, we still would not have made the connection! Needless to say I've been on to KLM about it and hopefully some corrections to their published available connections will be forthcoming!
In any event, Cathay Pacific was really great and bumped us onto one of their flights via Frankfurt. This was perfect because it gave us a chance to get to see our very good friends from Germany! Thank goodness we'd made the effort to get Schengen visa's. It made it possible to just change plans like that!
Our friends took us to a beautiful place about an hours drive from Frankfurt called Loreley. There is a legend about the sirens singing on the great rock and as a result causing many ship wrecks. Or something like that at least. We went to the top of the cliff/hill/mountain and had coffee at the top. The view of the Rhine was exceptional!
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| Barge on the Rhine |
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| View from Loreley |
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| German Flag...obviously...pretty impressed with my pic :-) |
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| German version of caravanning :-) |
Who says rice terraces are only for Asia :-) Well these weren't rice terraces necessarily but they were pretty impressive! It's a lot steeper than it looked in the pic.
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| Terraced Farming |
After Loreley we went for a drive and stopped at the quaintest hotel and restaurant. In the front carpark, farmers were selling their fruit etc. I hadn't seen such beautiful fruit in ages! At least not strawberries! I ate a whole punnet there and then. It was wonderful!!! Considering we can hardly get them in Manila.
The day was so short with our friends, but it was a real treat to see them! We caught our flight in the afternoon on Lufthansa to Dublin. More to follow in the next post.
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