The rest of our stay in Reims was great. Our second night brought in over 60 euros. Unfortunately, we spent the vast majority of our last day in that charming little town trying to figure out how to get out of it. The bus stop proved quite elusive and even buying the bus tickets to Frankfurt involved Keith having a long frustrating conversation in FrEnglish with a Eurolines representative on the phone. We were starting to doubt that this Eurolines even existed at all. Lo and behold, the Eurolines bus did come (a half hour late) and we were off to Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is a yucky city. At least the part of it near the train station is. After we left Nahum at the airport to go home we went in search of someone who would buy the guitar we bought in London. We walked through a gross part of Frankfurt with all sorts of strip joints and sex shops around. We weren’t able to sell the guitar and we were fed up with Frankfurt so we took a train to Koblenz because we hear it’s easy to get to Burg Eltz from here.
Koblenz turned out to be a GREAT town. I want to move here. People take their dogs absolutely everywhere. You can hardly go into any sort of store without seeing at least one dog. I even saw a dog in a restaurant. IN the restaurant, not in the al fresco dining area outside. Koblenz is really beautiful. It’s right on the Rhine and has lots of cool looking old buildings. It’s set in a hilly forested area and the weather feels like Monterey. I’ll try to get pictures onto facebook soon. Our hotel is adorable. Even the toilet is cute. It has a picture of dolphins on the lid. The toilet paper even has dolphins on it.
Lots of people speak English here – almost everybody. We’re rapidly learning more German words, but we’re not nearly as good as we are in French. We figure if they don’t speak English, we can ask if they speak French or Japanese instead. Ha ha! We love it here and hopefully we’ll get to see Burg Eltz tomorrow!
