We left not too late, and drove towards Burg Eltz, a very nice Castle from a rich family that was able to stay friends with everyone around and keep their castle :) The tour in English was quite good, but started at 10:00 instead of 09:30 like Jennifer thought, so we went to the treasury first. Also, it's actually a 15-20mn walk from the parking lot, in the middle of nowhere, and the shuttle only started running at 10:00, but luckily we found the shuttle going to work, and the guy nicely picked us up.

big family

Next, we drove to Cochem, which we didn't really have time to visit, but stopping at the bridge to take pictures was good enough:

From there, we drove to Beilstein, where we stopped for a bit over an hour to visit castle ruins, a viewpoint, and walk through the small downtown:

stairs to the top of the tower

Next we went to see the church and downtown:

We then had to leave by 13:30 for a longish drive to Trier where we had to hit some museums that would be closed the next day (Monday). Trier used to be a major Roman town, so there are several roman relics left (although Arles and Nimes have more left, even if they were more minor in the Roman empire): Jennifer got to practise on the autobahn:

LandesMuseum had most of the Roman finds

that poor wild big found herself a companion of size :)

the city in Roman times looked very nice

They had a nice amphitheatre and a horse/chariot race track

We then had just enough time to drop the car by the hotel and go see the city museum before it closed (also closed the next day). We then walked to the downtown plaza for dinner, before some well earned rest:

new layout of the city