On Monday, September 1, we woke up at drove from Dusseldorf to Cologne to pick up my mission companion we had met the previous day for lunch. From there, we drove south along the Rhein River to Frankfurt to meet another companion that we both served with.
The drive along the Rhein featured a lot of green vistas, old towns, and castle ruins perched on the slopes of the Rhein river valley. Like this:
We stopped in Sankt Goar, an old town with a fortress called Burg Rheinfels that used to be a point of tactical control along the Rhein. We toured the castle ruins and had lunch there. You could climb all over the ruins and in stony, dark hallways. The ruins covered a very large area and, in its heyday, the fortress was like a small city.
This is a view from the top of Burg Rheinfels, looking down over the town St. Goar:
And here's our group in the town with the castle in the background:
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