Author: Ed Hovorka

Made it to Rust, Germany as planned. It’s hot here, i haven’t seen a thermometer, but the hotel has AC.

Tomorrow we go to Rust, Germany, home of Europa Park. We will be riding roller coasters on Wednesday. It is not on a direct train route from here, so we will be taking 4 trains and 1 bus. Wish us luck.

A view while sitting on a bench along the Rhine. It got me thinking. This region has many castles along the river. The castles were built because the Rhine was used to transport goods, and each castle would string a chain across the river to stop boats so taxes could be collected. As I walked around town looking for a free wifi spot, I found a lot of access points, but none were free. So the chains are gone along the river, but they’ve been thrown across the Internet.

One train stop north of our town is Oberwesel. It has remains of Roman walls and medieval towers.

Denise under the world’s largest hand made cuckoo clock.