Europe

Walled Cities

Today was our final, full day in Germany.  We started out with an amazing breakfast.

This is milk.  What’s weird about this is that it’s not in the refrigerated section!  We are pretty positive it’s milk…it tastes like milk…it’s just a little odd:

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Now…here is the best invention EVER:

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These little goodies make ANY baked good into something spectacular!:

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See what I’m saying?  This is a fresh croissant from the bakery truck (yes, there is a bakery truck that comes to the resort every morning!).  I just took it to the next level by adding chocolate to it.  Oh man…it was amazing!  🙂    We did have fresh fruit and eggs this morning too…see, healthy!

After this, we wanted to stick closer to home so we could get back pretty early.  It was very brisk outside, but another perfect Autumn Day:

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You can see for miles!!  Just beautiful.  Anyway, we headed to a small town called Bad Munstereifel.  It’s surrounded by a wall and has been around since at least the 12th century:

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The entire town is like this and there are about 19,000 people living and working here on any given day.   One thing I’ve noticed here is how many amazing doors you will find in this country:

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And this one:

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This is the church from the 12th cenury.  Apparently, they were much smaller back then since the door woudn’t even fit my height:

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This is more of the old architecture:

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Here is the inside of a GORGEOUS church found in the middle of the city:

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Of course, Keith found a brewery:

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Here, he’s drinking the locally brewed Schwarz Bier (dark beer).  He thought it was pretty darn good.

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It’s been really hard for me to figure out what to drink here.  They don’t really have a lot of things we’re used to (iced tea?  HA!) so I found an Orangenlimonade…which I figured was an orange lemonade thing.  Apparently, it’s some kind of carbonated drink.  Who knew!  It was good though.

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This is your typical meal in Germany.  It’s got potatoes, sauerkraut and a sausage type thing.

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This right here is what they consider a salad.  Hahahahahaaaa!!!

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So overall…it was a really nice day.  Here we are at the edge of the walled city and getting ready to head home.  Now, we’re packing up things to ready ourselves for the next part of our trip:  Belgium!    I’m not sure what our internet will be like in Belgium but I’m hoping it will be good.  Sending hugs from Deutschland!!  Guten Nacht!  (Good Night!)

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