Rob & Liz's Blessed Adventures

Hi all, Well our cruise finally came to an end yesterday. It was a blast and we both had a great time over the 2 weeks. Too many highlights to mention but we did enjoy the smaller towns we visited on the river. We did a couple of things yesterday before we disembarked today. We had a canal boat cruise through the narrow canals here. Did you know 1/3 of the Netherlands is water?  They have at least 3 unusual things here. 1 - More bikes than people. Bikes have more rights than people!! They have special lanes all through the city as car spaces are very few and expensive to own or park. Around $8-12 AUD a hour to park. Most people have 2 bikes, 1 a each end of the journey so you ride to the train or whatever then you leave that bike there go to work etc and pick up your other bike at the other end. Rain hail or shine they ride bikes and are crazy like Parisians in their cars!! You have to watch out for bike more than cars!! This is at the train station only...

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 another magical day. We visited 2 small fairy-tale like villages. Robbie was a little hard to move as he had spent a large part of the night in the Horizon Lounge belting out tunes with fellow passengers in a karaoke night. Beautiful sight early morning Our first stop was the beautiful town of Wertheim. We wandered from the boat into the village and checked out some of the amazing buildings. Postcard perfect stuff The narrowest house One of the features of this village were that some buildings had a barn attached to them. This could be to the side of the residence, or the ground floor of the residence. The smell would have been quite rural. Glad that now the barns are empty. Another was that they often build the lower part of the building smaller narrower than the upper floors. So the buildings kind of looked like they should be upside down. This was because you were taxed on the amount of land your ground floor covered, ...