Day 2 - After a fine breakfast and making our lunches, 2 of our group of 6 took the train to St Goarshausen to pick up the trail there, while 4 of us embarked on this 2x normal day on foot. We covered over 2,000 m in elevation, over about 32 km. A big day by most standards. We ended it with a tasty dinner and great night at Landgasthaus Blücher in Dörscheid, just outside of Kaub.
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| Military practice run. |
It so happens that my brother and his wife redesigned the interior of several of the guestrooms, so it was great to experience their work in action.
With the heat on - Germany basked in a very early heatwave with high summer temperatures every day - the hiking in among trees was a welcome brake. We still got our share of open vistas - and a most unusual bird - in the form of practicing fighter jets and military transporters that used the Rhine valley for training.
It was just like during the cold war - and I think it was quite a shock to Jan, who had never seen such a thing.
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| Balcony art. It actually worked. |
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| Sculpture along the trail. Some might have wished to get carried the last bit into Dörscheid:) |
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| Laura, Karl and Jan hiking on. |
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| Beautiful greenery everywhere and that in mid April! |
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| Military transport dropping down into the Rhine Valley |
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| Rhine is a very busy economic artery connecting Switzerland, France, Germany and Holland. |
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| St Goarshausen - on top of this rock is a vertical Steig like they have in the Alps: fixed ladders, bolted to rock. |
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| Castles around every bend in these parts. |
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| The views of the meandering Rhine are all so pretty here. This from the famous Loreley. |
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