April 10, 2009

Trip to the Castle-Burg Stahleck






Last weekend, we had a fun adventure to a medieval castle on the Rhein River in a little village called Bacharach. Our family spent two nights in this castle turned youth hostel and had so much fun. Above is the entrance to the castle. Below is a view of the Rhein from the courtyard. This is also the view from our room. Dreamy!









Above Sarah's bed was a little window once used by lookouts/guards. How cool!










Note how high we are. We had to walk down and back up this very steep hill every time we went into town! What a workout, but it turns out we have a couple of mountain goats for kids-they were great and had so much fun!

We even found some real mountain goats!




Bacharach is such a picturesque village, full of buildings from the 1300's.


And a beautiful old chapel. The colors of the stained glass was sooo lovely and still so vibrant.

We took a car ferry across the Rhein to get home. A fun end to a cool weekend!