The River Rhein

Good evening from Eltville Germany. Eltville is about 20 miles from Frankfurt and it sits on the Rhein River. I have heard many things about the Rhein River but in all of my travels to Germany I have not seen it.

We have been in the Frankfurt area for 4 days now. We have had a great time with a little exception. Our train ride from Göttegin to Frankfurt gave me a good case of vertigo off and on for a couple of days. The train moves around 80-90 miles per hour and everytime it went through one of the many tunnels the air pressure in the train changed quickly and dramatically. I finally took enough medication yesterday to reset my equilibrium (it sure did make me sleepy though). Today was much better. We took boat tour of the Rhein which lasted almost 3 hours. The boat had 3 decks and seated around 500 people. During our trip up river there were about 50 people on the boat. On the trip back, there were 4...my friend Reinhard and Petra, Amanda and me. The banks of the Rhein have many different villages, super green mountains and several castles. The scenery itself was pretty cool but being the only people on such a big boat made it even better. I think I will tell folks from now on that I arranged for a private cruise (if they haven't read the blog that is). To complete the boat tour...no motion sickness or equilibrium problems for me!

After we went into Wiesbanden and had some french pizza. It was really good.

Now we are done for the night and have a full day tomorrow. We will start relatively early and go back into Wiesbaden to go to a big church and then head into Frankfurt to tour the city.

We start our flight home on Tuesday, 12:10 am Texas time. I hope to post once more before we start our journey home.

Until next time.

God Bless.