Trier, Monschau and Aachen
I finished the trip, by visiting Trier, Monschau and Aachen.
Trier is the city with the magnificent Roman gateway, Monschau is a picture postcard village and Aachen is famous for the cathedral.
What surprised me was that I was there in July and Monschau was absolutely dead and I had great difficulty finding a hotel that was open. I would have thought that it would have had more visitors.
Down the Moselle
I then travelled on down the Moselle.
It is a very beautiful area. The wine is good too!
Cologne
Some pictures of Cologne and the immense Gothic cathedral.
The one regret about Cologne was that it was so wet and I didn’t take that many photographs.
The window mechanism on the Lotus also failed. This is one design fault onthat has hit me twice! Grr! I had to wedge the window with card.
North Rhine-Westphalia
These are pictures I took at Kleve, Xanten, Wuppertal and Altenberg in North Germany in July 2008.
I was surprised at how much history there is in this part of Germany. Kleve is as in Anne of, Xanten is one of the largest Roman sites in north Europe, Wuppertal is famous for its upside-down railway and Altenberg has a superb cathedral, which is shared by both Protestants and Anglicans.
The Anonymous Widower 