We arrived in Bamburg at approx 2pm, Bamberg is a UNESCO World Heritage town built on 7 hills and is located at the entrance to the "Main-Danube Canal, through the centre of the town runs the Regnitz River, seperating the old town and the new town, it claims a population of 70,000 of which 10 per cent are students, I took a guided tour and our guides name was Erik, elderly gentleman with a white beard, red and white check shirt and the typical bavarian short pant...

Friday 25th The days are flying by and I seem to have lost track of the time, but back to Tuesday which turned out to be a very wet miserable day therefore we did not go on any of the tours but stayed on the boat and relaxed, overnight the ship sailed from Rudesheim to Miltenberg which is a medieval town that has become a time capsule and has retained a lot of the half timbered houses, the streets are cobbled with a lot of quaint little shops and cafes, a very p...

Monday 21st. This morning we woke to arriving in Cologne, Germany, and after breakfast there were two guided tour options, one to visit a chocolate maker or a historic walk through the city centre, I chose the walk, who needs chocolate with the amount of food we are consuming at the moment! the walk took us through the old part of town which was very interesting and especially where years ago they found ruins of tunnels and walls of the old Jewish quarter and ar...