I have been having so much fun this last week. I love having made a decision about going on this cruise. It was SO CHEAP compared to our last cruise with free air. It does overlap with four of the same cities, but we KNEW we wanted to come back to Amsterdam to go to the Museum district since we went to Harlaam (and the Corrie Ten Boom) and The Anne Frank House last time and did not have time for the museums. We will ride bikes through the windmill villages rather than go on a tour with our group (the talking portion was SUPER boring IMHO) in Kinderdijk, bike and go to the top of the tower in the Cologne AGAIN because that was so fun. We will also go to other places in the big city. Koblenz is the only disappointment in that they no longer dock at the city that we did not get to see last time because of a tour at Marksburg Castle. Now they go to the city below Marksburg instead. So we might go up to the top for that view and may or may not go on the tour. There is a nice nature reserve nearby. Or we might want to enjoy no one on the boat! We will go through the same castles on the Rhine, but that is something I would see again and again and again. So peaceful and lovely for an afternoon.
After that, we are in new places. I am so excited to hike up above the Rhine to Eibingen Abbey in Rudesheim because Hildegard Von Bingen founded it! If the boat docks on time, we will get there just in time for Vespers! I talked to a person who went there last November, and that person said it was no trouble walking up the hill in the dark. So I am so game. After that, we will go into the city and look at the Old Town. I guess wine is really big. We won't drink much wine, but I am sure we will enjoy the sites of a lovely city.
Next, it is Heidelberg and it's castle and university town. How fun!
After that, we go to Strasbourg in the Alsace. I would like to rent bikes since we will be there much of the day and have free time after our tour.We also have friends who live one hour away and might be able to see them. It is a full day, and we leave at 9pm. I have wanted to go to the Alsace for a long time! There was a super spendy tour, but it was seven hours with lots of food and wine. We would rather just buy the specialties ourselves and forget about all the wine and save ourselves a heap of money!
Then we go to Breisach. There is a tour of the Black Forest in the morning. We did buy a tour of Colmar for the afternoon because it doesn't look like we get to go there any other way. Maybe I should ask about that. It would have been an hour to get up to Colmar by public transport. So there would have been little time to enjoy it. I hope that was a wise choice. One woman told me that they did end up adding that as a free excursion without the tour.
Then we go to Basel, but we will only see it in the dark! BUMMER! :) I didn't realize we do not spend a day there at the end.
All that to say, I am very excited about this.
FIFTEEN MINUTES.
After that, we dock down on the Rhine in
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