Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Again moving on north, we have stopped for the night at Andernach, on the banks of the Rhine, but more of that later.
Burg Eltz Castle:
We visited this beautiful and amazingly tall castle en-route. It was very busy and the only way people could go inside was with a guided tour, which fortunately had an English language option. It was one tour after another, with multiple guides herding groups of around 35 through just a part of the large castle building.
What we did see, was clearly only a part of the whole, but it was impressive:
The treasury houses many very valuable items, including these:
Andernach:
The river is very busy here with a great deal of barge traffic. There is also a busy railway line on the far side of the river, with hugely long goods trains.
The town of Andernach is a walled settlement, with huge gates and a castle as a part of the defences:
There are also a number of interesting buildings, including the very quirky Stadtmuseum:
And a strange, statue, which has a head under its arm, which “spits”:
The shopping centre is pleasant enough with a couple of names we used to see on the British high street.
That is it for today. TTFN and see-u-later.
"See-u-Later" 