Schloss, Sauerkraut and Sunshine Have any of you heard of Br ü hl, Remagen or Koblenz? Or indeed Phantasialand? By all means reply in the comments if you have because they were places neither your faithful correspondent nor his lovely wife had previously come across. But they are all fantastic little towns which have been a treat to visit… oh yes, and the last one is a theme park 😊 . We are just entering a region of Germany known as Eifel which starts at Bonn (former capital of West Germany before reunification) and takes in a large swathe of area in a south and westerly direction. For us, that means we’ll be following the River Rhine pretty much in a southerly direction from there. After a lovely couple of days in Aachen, and after quite some head scratching, we headed for Cologne. It was hard to know which of the big cities in this area were worth a visit because there were plenty to choose from! Within 150km or so of Aachen you al...
