So, after a BIG meal last night accompanied by a stein of beer, I decided I needed to have run this morning or else the guilt would be too much, 8 sluggish km's later we tucked into a healthy breakfast.
Because it is now the off season for river boat trips in Koln we thought a visit to Bonn might be a good idea - a "Bon" idea?, we planned to get a boat from there instead, to explore the Rhine and hopefully see some-hill side castles. Bonn is only 30 minutes on the train and so off we sped.
(Is this place bon? No it's schoen!)
Guess what? It's off season for river boat trips on Bonn as we'll! We didn't mind however, because Bonn is a really nice place, prettier than Koln, and we enjoyed exploring it's squares and cobbled streets. A trip to the (extremely) helpful Tourist info gave us a plan, and Jan would get to see a pretty Rhine-side "schloss", (castle/chateau).
(Some rowdy locals pushing in on the tram...)
The plan involved quite a long tram journey, which is good because as a transport geek teams are good... However we made the mistake of catching the north bound service rather than the necessary south bound service, we were 20 minutes into the suburbs before I realised and we trekked back and corrected ourselves.
(The cog rail way up to Schloss Dracenburg)
We were headed for a small village called Konigs-Winter, from where we took a narrow gauge "cog-railway" up the hillside, to eventually arrive at an amazing "chocolate box" type castle, called Schloss Dracenburg. The whole journey had been worth it, because the place was great, reminiscent of the castle in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Back to Bonn for Bratwurst and beer, and then the train back to Koln, a good day, lots to see and loads of train/trams!
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