Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Day 4: Trier and Saarburg #germany #trier #saarburg #vacation

Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Day 4: Trier and Saarburg #germany #trier #saarburg #vacation

[Music] Hi, Joyce Dodge the MTO misses. Here’s our day four video. On this day, we did a twofer. We went up to Trier and again this is along the Mosul and we hadn’t explored the Mosul before this and so we started at the city of Trier. Wow, I don’t think we need to go to Italy. The ruins there were just fantastic. We started with the Portigra and uh it’s huge. That’s the biggest gate I think I’ve ever seen. Um, and then we found some more ruins and it it really was it was the most Roman we’ve ever seen. So, I hope you enjoy this one. Oh, and sorry. Uh, also on that trip then we decided to keep going cuz we wanted to see Sarberg and we were already getting a little tired of trains for that trip. So, we got back on the train, continued the same direction, and got up to Sarberg, and uh what’s cool about Sarberg is it has a waterfall through the middle of the town. Uh so, we had dinner there, and it was really, really lovely. So, I hope you enjoy the video. Hey, we are in Trier. We are in Trier. Just got off a train and watched it split in half. Uh, I was going to film it, but it was over before I could get the camera out. Okay, so we are outside the Trib Bonhoff and lot of construction here. I guess I don’t have preconceptions on what I think Trier should look like. We got to get into the Alchapa. Portengagra is right up here, the Roman the old Roman city gate cuz this was a major Roman city. It was one of their main trading post and control areas. So, you would have had a major Roman garrison here. And uh when they’re colonies to go along with cob blends this little long park and walk in the middle of the city on the way to the Alchat. Just thought it was a pretty walk even with the traffic and houses on both sides. Okay, so here we are. It is actually bigger than I expected it to be. The pictures I’ve seen don’t do it justice in terms of its size. That is This is Pengra. This was the old Roman uh the black gate, the black door. But wow, that’s bigger than I thought it was. Get some video of it. But actually, you got a whole cool row of buildings. Don’t be in a hurry to cross. I’m going to stay here. Okay. Well, this might do. But yeah, I’ll see if we can get it all in over there. This goes back to the early I’ll have to get the direct information. I’ll correct myself if I’m wrong, but I think early first or second century. I can just get it all in here. All right. Well, we are going to go through the city gate. This is amazing. It is really bigger than I thought it was. I am I am a little blown away here. I all the pictures I’ve seen I never really um associated the people cuz everybody takes pictures from far away and you don’t necessarily see the people in pictures. I thought this was a little smaller. This is big. It’s more impressive. That’s cool. You know, you see something so often in pictures, you think, “Ah, okay. It’ll be cool to see it live, but no, this is more impressive live than any pictures I’ve seen. [Music] School kids everywhere. And the Alcha Rod House and that is that way. and still not get the whole thing in. But I want to get it up close here. Well, what do you think of your first view of the Portagra? Wow, very cool. Very big. It’s bigger than I thought, as I’ve said on the video already. Really well built. Yeah. Yeah, Romans do a thing or two about construction, didn’t they? They sure did. Very cool. All right, so we just got off a Elchipo bus tour. That was cool. They showed us some things we definitely want to go back and see. All right, we are approaching the Halmach, the main market, and it is still market time. So, We haven’t walked that far, but still kind of cool. So, here we start with And Yep. We’ll go this way. Oh, nice. But yeah, this is you know someday maybe we’ll develop the technology that you can get sort of a 3D graphic image because This is an impressive square. At least the three sides of it. The side behind me not as impressive, but this is uh Yeah. [Music] Yeah, exactly. that one church that had the three different arrows on it. It’s right back here. Okay. They told you you walk through the little narrow thing to get to it, right? Yeah. It’s right there. Um um I should get this side in. I kind of said this side was the least important, but it’s still kind of cool. Can I get it all in this way? I have to go more across the square. Want to try to do a 360 go around slowly. There’s just so much here and I’m taking it in with my eyes. Just Yeah. I will say this is one of the for it’s an impressive square. We’re actually walking to a model train shop. Ah, we’re here. We might as well check it out. It’s an amazing Amazing detail and artwork. And then ugly rat birds. We just left the model train shop and we are going to head to just over here Karl Marx most misunderstood writer of the 1800s. But love him or hate him, this is a uh I merely think he uh oversimplified and overgeneralized certain things, but the basic principles of social ills and ending poverty are still true. All right, we’re on our way to the old Roman imperial baths that are going to be down this way a little bit, but wanted to stop and again admire some of the local architecture and squares we have. We’re kind of a ways off the main city center, but uh yeah, [Music] but this is the museum park. There’s the pond. But going to be so cheap. Oh, what a view. I was so busy looking at the Roman baths, I didn’t even see this view. Looking towards the old uh I think that’s that the the Prince Elector Archbishop’s Palace. You know, originally it was a uh lay position uh the um the Kurst of Trier, but then the Archbishop became the elector prince. And then it stayed with him in the That’s a great little view right there, isn’t it? Okay, so the main walls we saw right over here. I mean, if you want to, we can pay and go inside or we could just go up on the street corners and see what we see. [Music] And you’ll see when we get up here, there’s a path that goes along them. Sorry for the lawn mower friends. [Music] But yeah, this is a large Roman bath complex. You probably can’t see over the wall, can you? Yeah, I can for sure. Well, then again, I don’t know, Joyce. This got a little higher. Maybe you can see. Okay. And so yeah, you can walk the old Roman walls here and they go quite a ways. That’s a good shot. Now, if you pay and go inside, you get to go down close to where they’re excavating and see what they’ve dug out, and you get more of the stories. It all dates back to TR was first founded when Augustus was uh emperor and then they uh built the baths and some of the other stuff in the second century. Yeah. Almost 2,000 years old. I won’t look that good in 2,000 years. Okay. So, next question, my love. Do you want to walk the inside of the walls or outside? We are coming up to the Roman amphitheater where they held shows and gladatorial games. Humans fought animals, humans fought each other. Obviously, these are not the original Roman walls. So, the key is, do you want to walk through or just say, “Hey, I saw this. I’m good. So, this is an aerial view of what we’re going to look at. Yeah, it was part of the walls. Yeah. Okay, I see that. Yeah, the guy the tour guide mentioned that. Yeah, you’re right. He did. Okay. What’s the That would have been horse racing. Horse racing. That’s important right there. Yep. Outside the city walls of the city walls when something happens. We are not seeing water, are we? No, cuz the river is way over there. Yeah. Would [Applause] the seats just be grass or was this all? No, there would have been wood or stone benches. Okay. that circled around. But you came up, then you worked your way back down. Definitely in the middle ages the wealthier people sat up cuz you know like in Shakespeare’s time the groundings were at the inst think I guess they’re Roman, 1800 years old easily. All right, let us go in. I got to fight the lion. It’s in my contract. All right. He fights the lion. Yeah. Oh. No, just a little side room. Might have been a waiting room. Maybe have to look on the thing and see what it was. All right, we are now on the death field. just uh each of these there’s little tunnels and then there’s little side rooms. So I don’t know if it would have been waiting rooms for some of the animals. There’s another lower one here. It says gang. So we’ll go down the pit here, but out here’s where the action was. But this is one of the pits. In some of these chambers, they might have kept the animals in cages ready to let loose. Sometimes it was down here. But yep, gladiatorial games were here into the 400s. Going down. Okay. You have to stay on the path. And with all the heavy rains we’ve had, [Applause] What? We just came up from the basement. Of course, you saw that. But like Joyce said, he stand there and you sometimes you can feel the ghost. making other people kill each other for sport. Although usually the gladiators didn’t try to kill each other, but again, taking slaves and prisoners of war and forcing them to fight lions and such wasn’t exactly cool either. So the entrances to the arena basement lay at the sides. You can make temporary connection between the arena and the basement via two staircases. Okay. So, the cages were over there. Oh, okay. Over that side was the cages, Joyce. Uh, cages. That was four. So, where we were? Yeah, they’re right there. Area. Oh, so those were the cages right there. Those were the cages. And they could come up from the basement. Okay. Cuz yeah, this ring here, there would have been a wall right here on this a palisade. More of the old Roman fortifications were revamped in the Middle Ages. And we go through this gate and into a park. [Applause] [Applause] That guy is not Love my fountains. I’m afraid I’m not going to get this all in any way, shape, or form. And I still want to get around to the front. But this here is the Basilica of Constantine. After his conversion to Christianity, his mother had a church built here, and it became a basilica afterwards. And she gifted it with a uh a relic, a relic, a holy relic, which they claimed to be one of the ropes that held uh Jesus. It’s one of the ropes that Jesus was tied to the cross with. This is the show. That’s a great picture. Wonder where they took it from. My name is is up in the room. Yeah, it’s all So now sometimes there’s nothing can be helped. Oh yeah. But those cars all came from a direction where the road had the blacks on. Wonderful drink. [Music] So this is the true dome and next to it is the leisha. So this is what we’re looking at. Yep. So yeah, that’s the lead proud cure here right there. And that’s the dome there. This is what we’re looking at. We’re standing really right here. We’re standing right there. This saying this was in year four. So the first bishop of Trier uh St. Matan Matin. So, yeah. I guess the only way to get a decent picture of this is over there. Yeah. Here’s the purple and gray pictures we drove through. Remember you I think you managed to get a picture of it. I tried to film it. The purple and gray buildings. What’s happening? We are see there. Had to reduce it. But thankfully they give you the reduction to 6. Epic. Two churches originally started in the 4th century and then rebuilt and rebuilt, rebuilt. All right, Joyce and I are ending our day in Trier. Very successful day. We saw a lot of cool things and we’re going to end it the way we started it going through the Porenegra. Yeah. The black gate. That is something else. Did we get a picture of ourselves in front of it? All right, Joyce and I did something crazy. We are in Zarberg. We decided instead of saving Zarberg for tomorrow, it was early enough in the day. So, we came to uh Zarberg from Trier and we’ll do Zarberg today, have dinner here, spend most of the evening, and then head back late to Cooblins and sleep in tomorrow. So, we don’t have to get up and come down here. Plus, it saves us a ticket because it’s all on one ticket. I don’t know. Long train ride. So, yeah. Yep. All right. So, that’s a train station. Fancy building. Yeah. Another one of those. Say what? A train. Is that tree cool? Yeah. Tra Hoff and something and it’ll join up with something and go on. But this is our bug. There’s nothing specifically here other than there’s a waterfall that goes through the city that is quite pretty. Joyce has seen it in pictures and so he said, “Could we go there?” So, we’re going there while you stare at a bus. I’m sure it’s closed. That’s our first view of the Zar River, at least when not on a train. That’s cool. I knew they had a castle here. I just, as much as I love castles, I wasn’t necessarily geeked to have to go to this castle because the one in Kosam was the big one. Zar Zarberg was really your waterfall. That’s what this was about. That’s a great shot. And then still got some of the old city walls up there, too. And I think that’s the part of the town you want to go through cuz I think your waterfalls follow that canal through there. But we’ll look and see. I assume the castle closes about 5 or 6, so we’re probably too late to go through it. Hello, Zar River. [Applause] Yeah. This is just the beginning. Actually, I think there’s more further up, but the main one is We have to work our way over there. Heat. Heat. You come here, you see the watermel. Oh, okay. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. This is beautiful. And I have dinner tonight. She’s having a chicken schnitle, but I am having a Zar burger. I’m in Zarberg having a Zar burger. So, I’ll let you know how it goes. How was your burger up today? It was damn good. That was a good burger. That was a really good That was good meat. So, it’s evening in Zarberg. It’s hard to tell that it’s close to 7:00 in the evening. One more shot of the waterfalls. You don’t get the full calls from here. I think there’s a place over there you can go around and get the shot from up to the castle. We missed. You think we missed what? A bridge crossing. What bridge crossing? We did cross that bridge. Heat. Heat. Let’s get you. I’m trying to There we go. That works. Okay. Your gritted teeth grin. That’s cool. It’s a pretty little smart to come on the same day rather than make it a separate trip, I think. We might have been able to find enough to do, but it’s okay. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. All righty. Okay. Some of the entrances to the castle which was closed when we got here. Montag ruag. Monday is quiet day, so a lot of places are closed on Mondays, but there are goats up on the side of the hill here. [Music] What? All right. Well, down here everything says Alzaroo, which would also kind of explain the So, we did a small tour of Zarberg, but we decided to come here later in the day. So most things were closed and it was Monday. So museums and stuff were closing as we got here or were never open and Monday is often uh Montag Wuag. Monday is quiet day for a lot of restaurants and that they stay open on the weekend and close on Mondays. Uh but yeah, we did Trier which was already overwhelming and then uh we enjoyed what we did and had a great dinner here in Zarberg. We probably have not toured the city as much as we should have and would have had we come tomorrow. But we saw what we really wanted to see. [Music]

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Anthony and my 4th full day in Germany saw us go to Trier and finish the day in the town of Saarburg. We originally planned to visit both towns on separate days, but decided to save a little train money and do both on one. It was an amazing day with two beautiful towns very different and yet similar.

Trier was so impressive with the Roman ruins. One could feel the ghosts at the ampitheater and Porta Nigra was the biggest single city gate I have seen.

Saarburg was a quaint little town with a lovely river and waterfall going through it which I have wanted to see for years.