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!



3 comments:

annajanine said...

What an exciting weekend for the beautiful Brose's! The pictures are wonderful and really capture how much fun you guys must have had. An excellent idea from whoever planned the trip (Heather???...)! We missed seeing you all over the Easter holiday weekend, but you were certainly in our thoughts as we stuffed ourselves on yummy Easter picnic food (though the weather prevented our traditional picnic...again...). Thanks for sharing!

annajanine said...

Oh! I started a blog for me and Jonathan! It's just an infant, but please check it out :). I guess if you click on my picture you can get to the blog?

Glenda said...

Love the goat! You make me chuckle! Loved the post card too --- I'm so coming in July. Need to call you soon- very soon!