Day 84 14 June 2015 Rudesheim

Elizabeth did not have a good night with a high temperature, nausea

The captions show:

the ruined Church of St Hildegaard

Germania Monument

Views over Rudesheim

Going down the Rhine through the Lorelei

Marksburg Castle (where we had dinner)

and she hasn't eaten.  She did get up for breakfast and several people came over to our table to see how she was.  Some others are not that well either, we call it ‘kennel cough”.

This morning Elizabeth stayed on board while I took the opportunity to take photos of St Hildagard and to climb up the hill to the Germania Monument.  This large monument commemorates the reunification of Germany in 1871.  The first 3/4 was easy but the climb became a little steeper.

We had a lovely BBQ lunch and afterwards we cruised through the Rhine Gorge where the scenery was quite spectacular with lots of castles.

Tonight we had a tour and a medieval dinner at the Marksburg castle overlooking the Rhine.  Elizabeth was quite brave and came along and she managed to survive.  There were lots of narrow stairs and nooks and crannies but the tour was very informative. The food was OK, especially if you liked drinking mead  and eating hard black bread - yummy! The entertainment was good and they involved some unfortunate passengers. One fellow Adam is a ambo from Aramac who is one cool dude.  He is a biker with long hair and a lot of charisma - he is a funny guy and they had him help with a young girl doing gymnastics. It was very funny indeed! They had a fire juggler for us when we left.

We are due to leave Koblenz at 2.00AM tonight and we arrive in Cologne tomorrow.