Rob & Liz's Blessed Adventures

Hi all, Box Christmas tree Today takes us to 2 small towns on the Rein, Rudesheim and Koblenz. In the morning we docked at Rudesheim and took a “train” up to the magical music museum. This museum is unique, and we have never seen anything like it before. It is full of historical collections of mechanical music machines from Pianolas to Organ grinder machines. Most of the collection has been restored by hand to working order. The mechanical violins are amazing, and I’ve put together a v ideo well worth a look see here. Next, we wandered through the town looking at markets (yep that’s what we are here for) and some other shops where we spent some more of the inheritance (sorry boys). Snow globe large size for getting your picture taken We picked up a couple of table runners which were nice. Lizzy purchased a handmade glass bracelet and I succumbed to buying a German beer stein. Couldn't fit this in :) Back to the boat f...

Hi lovelies, Today was Vienna. What a beautiful city, and so super clean. We even saw one man cleaning the outside of a rubbish bin. Christmas market sign - being silly again Lots of historic buildings with statues and adornments everywhere view from our boat The day started with a bus tour of the city and then a walking tour of the inner city. you can take a 20min ride for 55 Euros ($100 aus) Lots of historic monuments Roman remains of a fort Black Death statue Churches Famous St Stephen's church - St of Stone workers And buildings. It was freezing here We found 4 of the 15 Christmas markets that were on offer. Lots of wonderful things to see. One thing we noticed about the stalls today is that they were selling a lot of mass produced items rather than handmade. We did find apple strudel punch, which is served warm and was very nice. Keepsake cups you can keep and reuse small co...

Another Christmas shop!! Today we dropped off our big monster van, phew, it was good but glad to it is back to the owners now. We caught a light rail into the main city area of Edinburgh to drop our bags off at the motel so we could go exploring. Divinity college We wandered around down towards Princes St where there is a big display setup for Christmas. It covers a large area and is really cool. It has food, shops rides and Booze outlets. It was nice to wander around and find unique stuff. As usual Lizabeth was in her element!! She was brave and went up the Big Circle so we could have a look around the city from up high. views from the top We found some lunch a little stall, so I decided to try some black pudding with my pork burger. It was actually pretty good. We were told it was good, better than haggis I reckon. Black pudding Feeling brave we decided to walk up to Edinburgh castle to check it out. A bit uphill most of the way an even in the...