Moselle Road Trip 2017 – Page 2

Food 2017 – Saxler’s Restaurant, Hotel St. Stephanus, Moselle Road Trip, Day 6

Thursday September 28th – Day 6, Saxler’s Restaurant And so, as planned the day before, we duly presented ourselves at Saxler’s Restaurant in the Hotel St. Stephanus for what promised to be a far better dinner than we’d had the night before! Not that that would have been difficult. The charming lady, who I suspect…

Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 6

Thursday September 28th – Day 6, Urzig, Wehlen Thursday was devoted to some localised sightseeing and some serious wine tasting and buying that saw us range up and down the river as far as Urzig and Wehlen (about 3k in either direction from Zeltingen) after a morning of museums. The morning started with another run…

Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 5

Wednesday September 27th – Day 5, Bernkastel-Kues After slightly more driving than anticipated the day before we decided we’d take it easier on Wednesday and would spend the day pottering gently round Bernkastel-Kues, just 5k down the road. It was another foggy morning but we weren’t going to let that stop us. It boded well…

Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 4

Tuesday September 26th – Day 4, Burg Eltz, Burg Pyrmont and Burg Thurant Tuesday turned out to be all about the castles, one of the things people tend to think of first when they think of German tourism. Lynne had demanded castles and so I was keen she should get them! The plan was to…

Food/Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 3

Monday September 25th – Day 3, Trier, Neumagen-Dhron, Veldenz, Zeltingen-Rachtig On Monday we were still with the Romans, starting the day at the Amphitheatre, which was just down the road from our hotel. The day again started with fog on the heights, and it was chilly and damp, which may have been why we pretty…

Food/Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 2

Sunday September 24th – Day 2 – Nennig, Konz, Trier After a truly awful run through what seemed to be very steep vineyards (not helped by the fog that had dropped down overnight or the amount of food eaten the night before) we got our act together, had a lovely breakfast, and checked out of…

Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 1

Saturday September 23rd – Day 1, Eurotunnel, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany And so the long awaited “big” holiday of 2017 rolled around and after much complicated planning we were off to spend two weeks (almost) meandering along the course of the Mosel (or the Moselle as the Brits call it), visiting castles, implausibly pretty little…