Trier: reloaded!

Not to distract from NOTA (and AWWWWESOME job there, guys! Put up that video Dan has!), but I had a lovely weekend with some lovely people in some lovely cities. There really isn't a better way to describe it. 

First of all (slightly out of order - this was in Koblenz on our last day), I met up with Elizabeth and Brandon in Trier on Friday evening. Our plan was to wine taste our way through the city, and to our luck - there was a Weinfest with regulars busses going on! 

Dad, if you were ever wondering where your traveling daughters, half dead (kinda figuratively?) stayed after Isabelles high temperature ridden night in the cheap airport, it was here. I am taking this picture from in front of the bahnhof. We literally crossed the street.

Isabug and I stayed in the upper right set of three windows room!

Lovely Trier ;) Brandon and Elizabeth are under the wine stand, there on the left; our first wine tasting of the night!

 I wish I had more pictures from in between for here, but Elizabeth is a great photographic memory maker, so I will just direct you to the Early Adventures for anything else ;)

Fireworks exploding out of a vineyard. 

We ended up going all over Trier the second day (after a nice, wine-induced sleep, and a nice typisch-deutsch frühstück!), going inside the Porta Nigra, the Basilika, and some other cute places (ok ok, we went in H&M while it was raining too. At least it has the same old facade as the rest of the buildings in the square! Historical society, yeah!). We enjoyed a little wurst and some wine, then tried to make our way to the oldest wine celler in Germany, underneath a nursing home/old monastery. Alas, it was closed, so there was no reinvention of Isabelle and my last wine tasting there. Another time?

We then drove through some major weather, stopping in the adorable town of Cochem where we stopped for cool pictures and then hiked up a residential type hill to a Weingut! It felt a lot more off the beaten track (which we looove!) and we tasted a TON of wines. We also bought several bottles, at prices we had been paying for glasses all weekend (2.50-3.50€). It was very small, with a fairly young guy who belonged to this family. The little vineyard was across the street from their house (we were in the basement of their house, set up as a man-cavish bar), and he was wearing an old t-shirt and construction pants, which also gave an "of-the-earth" feel to that particular Weinprobe (wine-tasting).

I found a badbär at the Deutsches Eck!

After that, we went on to Koblenz, at a dinner including the wurst-platter, Jägerschnitzel, and Grillhax'n (pig joint?), at a typical German restaurant that later had an over-40's (my interpretation) 80's party (theirs). We also went to a bar called "Mutti's" (mama's), after deciding it was too dark to see the Deutsches Eck. The following morning, we got lots of coffee in between visiting the Deutsches Eck (much more visible than on our night-walk), some flowers (the national garden... thing was going on there this year, "BUGA.")

Brandon and Elizabeth are taller and smaller than certain high water periods throughout Koblenz's history!

We then drove a little further on one side of the Rhein and had some wurst at a Biergarten (I got sunburnt), and then crossed back to the other side to visit Boppard. Since we only continued to find venues that were either closed or had private parties going on, we simply bought a local wine from a mini carnival and drank it in little plastic hotel cups on the river...... which is really the only way to enjoy an afternoon like that one ;)

Now back to the grind, but looking forward to more early, and even late, adventures with those Earlies!