The next cruise required us to bus over to ship with stops at Reims Cathedral and the cemetery memorial in Luxembourg. This memorial contains over 5,000 American soldiers.
First stop after getting back on the boat is Tier Germany which was a big Roman city with some the best remaining ruins left north of the Mediterranean.
The next stop was Cochem Germany which included a tour of winery and then the Reichsburg castle that was originally built in the l1th century, destroyed in the 17th and then rebuilt.
Out next stop was Koblenz Germany which is where we enter the Rhine river. We did a walking tour around town and then did a day cruse through the famous are with castles up both sides of the canyon,
Next stop was the town of Mainz with a walking tour and a church with stain glassed windows designed by Chappel.
Next stop was a bus ride to Worms where a lot of the Martin Luther action took place. In the afternoon headed over to Heidelberg castle which was destroyed and never rebuilt.
Next stop is the town of Strasbourg where we did a town walk with a lot other history and one of the better Christmas Markets.
We then did a walking tour at Basel before heading by bus over to Zurich for two nights. We did another walking tour of Zurich before heading home, Up at 4:30 in the morning and got home about midnight and lost eight hours of time zones - that was a long day.
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