Rob & Liz's Blessed Adventures

Hi all, Today we are in Cologne Germany famous the perfume 4711 Ice Cologne, remember it? It is also the 4th biggest city in Germany. Also the the home to Bayer the big pharmaceutical company that make lots of drugs. (no not that sort). We got to take a another walking tour around the city. After that was a tour of the markets where we had some more gluhwein. We did check out another huge church here unreal they are inside. It was cold raining and windy so we were not all that comfortable, so we did what we could and headed back the the warm ship. We headed off shortly after lunch on our way to Amsterdam. We crossed the border into the Netherlands around 8pm and are slowing sailing down stream. We will arrive there in the morning to take 2 tours. Bayer stack (maybe not in use anymore) Tonight we raged a bit. Sang in the choir on board singing Christmas carols then after dinner we had a bit of a dance and sang along to some modern music. elephants...

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, ...

Hi lovelies, After sailing most of the night this morning we reached the beautiful town of Wurzberg. We arrived a couple of hours before schedule due to some timing luck with locks. I mentioned to someone that if this keeps up the captain will get a speeding ticket. 😉 view from the ship to the Old Princes' residence Big fortified Residence After breakfast, which for the first time in a bit was not held in the dark, Robbie went off for a nap and I headed for the short walk into town. Wurzberg is surrounded by vineyards. We noticed them while sailing and again on the walk. I have decided that I am pleased my lot in life is “to drink the wine, not tend the vine”. I cannot imagine working these fields. They are all on the sides of hills. Vineyards up and down the hills Our morning view is of the old residence belonging to the Prince Bishops. We thought the building was magnificent, but someone down the line wanted a much nicer residence, so this ...