The history of the federal republic, was first:

Next was the Bonn Deutsches Museum, a fun science related one

including a performing robot dog

After that was the Arithmeum, very cool collection of old calculators:

Back in town:

Beethoven museum:

Quick drive to Nurburgring:

And one last evening by the hotel terrcae:

Small museum

Then there is a cable car that takes you to the fort across the river:

cable car up to the fort

better view of the river crossing:

And cheating picture evening in Kochem

Went to vistt the Cochem caste, nice little one, sadly most castes in Germany have a stupid policy that doesn't allow you to take pictures inside, but I must have not heard right :)

Nice little walk down to town:

Next was visiting the very cool Bundersbank Bunker, it was secretly built to house an entire new currency that was meant to replace the german currency pretty much overnight if it was ever compromized during the war.

lots of new money, all ready

Back to town:

Another quick castle on the way:

great views

Back for more in 2025, went to see Eltz Castle this time around, it's a long walk from the parking lot, so it makes sense to pay the shuttle. There might have been something about no pictures inside the castle again, but my german is rusty...

by bye :)

Nice views on the way back to Cochem:

Quick stop at a local museum:

And back to Cochem:

cool vending machines ;)

quick drive to Nurburgring ;)

eah de cologne :)

The old remnants looked cool:

The cathedral was nice:

nice view from the top

the crypt was also nice

rest of the city:

Then, I picked the chocolate museum, because chocolate ;)

Next door was the olympic sport museum:

Then, drive back to Cochem on autobahn:

The best food in Germany is still breakfast ;)

The neanderthal museum opened first, so we started with that:

They were very proud of their new outdoor structure built where they found remains, but honestly it was kind of a waste of time:

why was this here? ;)

the entire thing was built for that

all of that

Nextdoor-ish, the emotion air balloon museum was fun:

Downtown has a nice little river walk with metermaids working hard to ticketting anyone who stopped:

They had a museum complex, wroth quick visit:

haha

Then went by the river:

Rhine tower

wish view ;)

The next morning, some time for the Japanese Gardens:

michoko birds

And on the way out of town, Kaiserwerth is an interesting old neighborhood:

I did a bit of search and found a few things to see in Frankfurt anyway :)

Hotel by Main train station:

the red light district is just next door

opera

can't argue with the logic ;)

I found a museum of electronic music:

Many of the churches are a bit basic, but still nice to see:

After the war, the main square of Frankfurt got rebuilt to be a bit cute:

Crossing the bridge:

And back to the main station, didn't have to take the train, but nice station: