Catching up on "other" adventures....

It’s been a while since we’ve been on a river trip, so I think it’s only fair to include some “other” adventures to fill the gap weekends. Before the River Tweed trip, we went to Germany for a few days, spending time in Cologne, Koblenz and touring several miles worth of the Rhein River. We met a friend of one of Lucas’s classmates in Cologne. She took us for a lovely dinner and then backstage in the opera house where she works. After maybe 24hrs in Cologne, we took the train with every football fan in Germany to Koblenz. We didn’t know which team was which, but we figured out that the red team had won that day. Memorable moment: The football fans baaahing as we rolled into Koblenz station. We met Lucas’s cousin Bruce in Koblenz and joined Bruce’s MBA classmates the following day for a boat tour on the Rhein that included a few hours of wandering in St. Goar and St. Goarshausen. We were able to tour Burg Rheinfels, a castle ruin that overlooks the city of St. Goar. My favourite foods of the weekend were ice cream (it was awesome) and spargel, a white asparagus. Upon my return to Edinburgh, I became a vegetarian.