In my last post, I showed you the first 3 days of our Viking Rhine Getaway River Cruise. In this post I will share the next 2 days. On Monday we docked in Braubach, Germany. We started our day with a tour of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
The tour was conducted by a guide who took on the persona of a English spy living at the fortress.
The size of the fortress was quite impressive.
So were the views of Koblenz from the top of the fortress.
We spent the afternoon sailing the Rhine on our way to Rudesheim. There were pretty towns, castles and vineyards along the way.
At night we once again had dinner off of the ship. We dined in Rudesheim and enjoyed dinner and music in the sweet little town.
Tuesday found us docking briefly in Mannheim and then sailing on to Speyer. We were taking a tour of the gardens of Schwetzingen Palace. These gardens were spectacular.
All very formal, but with walkways off to the side to take you to various statues.
There was also a small open air ampitheater that was quite beautiful.
This night we enjoyed dinner and trivia on the ship. Our team came in 2nd place in trivia and won a box of Lindt chocolate that we all shared.
There are still two more days for me to post about, but I am very slow with uploading the photos to my computer. There are a lot of photos and I am labeling them as I upload them.
I hope you enjoyed this second installment of our vacation.
Thanks for visiting!