Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Part 5: The Last 2 Days in Koblenz #koblenz #traveling #germany

Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Part 5: The Last 2 Days in Koblenz #koblenz #traveling #germany

[Music] Hi, Joyce Stage, the MTO misses. Welcome to day five. Day five, we decided to stay in Coblad. Since we did Sarberg the day before, um we gave ourselves kind of a free day and a day to sort of slow down a little bit. We’re trying to learn from p past vacations that we can’t move around so much. So, we stayed at Collins and we did a boat tour of uh just the lower rine. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. And um we it was a very lovely boat ride. We drank wine and had cheesecake. You can’t beat that, right? And uh then we you know just had a casual day. But in the evening we went to the Deutsches after dark. That was something Anthony wanted to do. So um there’s pretty cool video out of that too. So I hope you enjoy. All right. Joyce and I are walking along the Mosul. We got a couple of bridges here. Really haven’t walked this. We should have, but we really haven’t. the Lee Paw and Kirka Towers and yeah, that should have been the first queue. But that’s Aaron Bridstein. So, we got to go up to Deutsches there and then we’ll look for the uh Gillis uh tour. But in the distance there, you can see a set of stairs right there. My finger will blur it out, but then you’ll catch up to it right there. Um, are several pictures over the years of me with my students there, but now you can’t access it. They’ve blocked it off. That’s a shame. Yep, we’re here again. Yeah. Brightstein, the Zaban cable cars going across. Joyce and I are doing a boat tour. There’s a close-up of Joyce on the side. We uh did two We did two days in one yesterday. Just decided what the heck, let’s go to Trier. And then when we had done what we wanted to do in Trier, we said, well, there’s still time. Let’s go down to Zarberg for the afternoon and evening. So, we went down to Zarber, which is what we were going to do today. And that is the Prussian government building when the Prussians kind of took over this area. And then we will get to the palace. There’s a little riverside uh place there. There’s the And there’s the palace. The the old uh elector prince palace, the curve is [Music] We saw it our second day here. So I guess it makes sense we see it on our second to last day. [Music] and mozzal. Cool. Little rigo. It’s a 648. Hey guys, we’re on a boat rail fanning. How about that? Oh, look at that little 648 go. I’m surprised how many Solo 648s I’ve seen. Yeah, that’s C1. So, Copenzo beer brow eye. I have never seen Collinser beer anywhere. So now it’ll be something I have to look for the next few hours today and tomorrow before uh we leave Cooblins and give it a try. One of the oldest churches on the Rine right there. That’s Lunchstein. Now I got to go to the other side. [Music] Here’s Stolson Fel’s castle. It used to be a brighter yellow, but they toned it down about 15 years ago. [Music] on our left side. I’ve got a picture of it when it was a much brighter yellow. Directly at the confluence of the L River at the Rine lies the Johannes church built in 1130. This church is one of the oldest at the Ryan River. Above River, you can see the 1230 erected. But I’ve always wanted to go up to that castle. We’ve never had the time. When we were down here with the students, we never had the time. And now it’s closed. So, still can’t go see it. So, this is the closest I’m going to see it as a residential castle ever. Except it’s closed. It’s worth a visit when it’s open. But yeah, I’ve always wanted to go see this castle and oh well, maybe someday we’ll come back to the region. cuz it’s got a beautiful sort of like mural on the one. You know, 10 days. You got All you have to know is we’re not halfway. Oh, that’s Does this go down to Bulbar? That would be cool. The ones we don’t see. That’s cool. We could go to Buffard tomorrow. It’s just sort of a medium day. We could be right. Bart’s got Roman ruins and it’s a smaller town. And it’s got sort of a funny meaning to its name. Yeah. Okay. It’s Bopard. And the river does a funky curve at Bopard. Bopard. But bopard is also an old Germanic term. Am bopa is a boob. And since the river makes a shape of a boob there, there are many people that think that’s what they were calling it. Catching a little regional action, not really getting it. Oh, there comes a gap. We were four boats wide here for a second. They have apple ones. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to try one? And once again, we’re in Browak. Okay. No, you you can go too. I’ve been here many times. So, many times. Yeah. We first came here for our 20th wedding anniversary. 18 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. when it’s on. Okay. Moxburg. Albeit say cheers. And uh do you remember do you remember the name of the hotel? All the [Music] nope Zimbison Zimbison [Music] here. No. No. Rinbeck Vasa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was the last thing. Yeah. And that was cool. It was the Rin. I think that’s where I turned. Oh, right. That was the one the first thing we did. Yeah. Ninth house. Yeah. Bad Bad Basel. And Yeah. Um Shausen and Bad Basel. Yeah. So that’s Yeah, that’s Lstein. That’s Lstein. The river coming up here is the river Lan and then the area here is Lstein. [Music] What? This town up here is lime, but the river line is up here. It’ll be coming up here. [Music] So yeah, that is Castle. So this is the Lan River coming in right here. Yeah. So that’s Castalanstein and that’s the that’s the fluan right there. Why do I ask? I don’t know. Don’t ask me why you’re doing what you’re doing. You don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what you’re doing. [Music] Don’t lose my charger. We might catch it coming around the corner or Yeah, there he goes. [Music] Yeah, you’re not going to catch him. He’s on the other side of this house. I was getting the camera out to just get this angle of Aaron Brestein, right? Not quite the same angle, but we’re on the boat. So, yeah, I think we have seen from every possible angle. Wrong. No, you’ve never been over there to see it on the other side. Yeah, we’ve been up in it and looked down. We’ve been on that side of it. That’s it. We’ve been to the front side, but we’ve never never been around the back side of it. No, you come up this side. Can’t you see the wall angling up? That’s the walk that goes all the way up. What? No, cuz that’s still not the side to see it. We’ve seen it all on the inside. No, you have to go on to where those houses are over there. Yeah, that’s not happening. Oh, he was dead by 1897. He died in 1888, the year of three emperors. The world’s largest equestrian statue. There you go. the world’s largest equestrian statue. But we’ve never seen we’ve seen it from those benches there and there’s many pictures of my students from there. But yeah, seeing it from the river kind of new and different. Why not? Sure, why not? Yeah. The Kaiser 1888 William the Great Wilhelm. We’re in Moon’s Plats in Mons. I don’t know if I’ve ever taken pictures. Way over there is Florence Mark. You can see one of the towers to the Florence Kirka St. Florence. Um, and you got the Mosul Reser River is just right down here. And you can see some of the bridges across it. Some of the old walls along the riverfront and or prettier. Yeah, Moon’s plots. So, we’re heading up to Monstrasa, but if you turn right up there, you’ll get to Monstras as well. It just gives you You’ll recognize this once we come through it. Yeah, actually. Yeah. Veer left. Yeah, Maxaritz is right there. That’s why I said you’ll recognize it. Where you going? All right. So, we’re at the one bridge of the Mosul here. I was just wondering could we go down, but it’s now blocked off. You can see the old stairs here where you could go down. And there is a gate. Don’t know if it’s locked or not. just, you know, are the current or is the water that bad? Got a luxury boat here. Exact same chairs we have on our patio in our apartment. It’s too close. We are walking across that bridge on the Mosul. It’s a garbage scal. against heat. Joyce and I came down to the Deutsches E big statue of big statue all lit up. It’s not our last night, but it’s the last night we can do something like this cuz we have to get up early and get the apartment checked. But yeah, in Brightid’s up there, the first time we stayed here with students, we stayed up there and uh saw this amazing view from down here. We just sat up on benches up there and just enjoyed the solitude and the quiet. Mosul is quiet. I will show Just another freighter coming up the Moselle and crossing onto the rind. This is the Say what? This is the ride this way as well. It’s not. Well, no. It’s still technically on the mosul. The front end is now getting into the rind. No, no, I’m talking about the city. Oh, we’re going that way Thursday. pretty darn far north. Not the farthest north, but pretty darn far. Thing is, you know, people talk about, oh, the noise of the ships passing. That was very calm. It’s a big ship and it’s very calm. Uh here is day six in Copelands and this is our last full day in Copelands. Again, we stayed in and we decided to walk up to the Lion’s Gate. I had no idea it was that steep. I love those walks. So, what a pretty gate. There’s nothing else there but the gate. But what a pretty gate. And so we um just sort of explored the forts that were in that area and uh then enjoyed our last day in Cold Bloods. So I hope you enjoy it too. All right, we are behind the train station and that is part of Fort Constantine, part of the three-part city fortifications at one time, which Napoleon flattened this. And then the Prussians came in afterwards in the 1840s and built it up to be a modern fortress for its time in conjunction with Aaron Brightstein. It’s now owned by a private group and they’ve recently closed it to public. You can call with groups and get special tours, but you used to be able to walk up to it. But now you can’t because they’ve had vandalism and arson. So they’re not really open and receptive to random visitors, so it’s shut down. All right, we’re on this side of it. It took a very steep and long walk to get up here, but we are at what’s called the Lion’s Gate, which was built in 1817 to 1822, place of some old city fortifications. I don’t know if that image gives any idea of how steep this hike was. But we made it to the Lionsgate. One of the few things major sites in Copelands I had yet to see. And now I’ve seen it on our last day. That’s a view. Joyce and I on the long hike. Yep. Get my arm out there. And no way for you to see the elevation we climbed to get up here. Yes. Super. And uh love to challenge myself. Yeah. Move to your right. Sorry. There we go. Now I’m moving around. There we go. But uh yeah, that’s a lot. Very steep climb. And lot more of a gate than I expected, seeing as there were no signs to it at all. There’s no markings, you know, for being a landmark in the city. There’s no Yeah. you know, tourist markers to it. You got to find which road and walk up and you have to know it’s here and find your way yourself. Maybe it’s too residential here, so they keep it private. That could be. Yeah. Residential area. Okay. All right. This is part of the fort here. We’re near a there’s a little children’s park here. I assume you’re allowed to go in. It’s it just blocked off for uh like bikes. You have to walk in. Awesome. So, yeah, this uh I mentioned it I think in one of the videos that we were walking up. This is Fort Constantine. They built it uh after the Napoleonic Wars. Uh they restrengthened the previous fort that had been here had been destroyed by Napoleon and they rebuilt this to uh um as a more modern secure fortress uh for future wars obviously. And there’s a kind of a map over here showing the fortifications. Binstein, Astine, Fort Astein, astein, a Aststein, but yeah, Aststein and go and go for Constantine. Yeah, that’s that, right? Which is down here in the pictures here. And then the Festo Kaiser Alexander. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this has all been mostly cut off. What do you mean? Because uh you’re saying here? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there’s really nowhere to go here. It just goes down. Oh, okay. It looks like it’s in the city. That’s the Kaiser. Well, some of those don’t even really exist anymore. They’re Well, you can see they have pictures of them or they’re partial ruins. Oh, yeah. But yeah, those are on the north side of the river. Oh, so there’s massive fortifications here. So, we’d have to go to the other side of the river. So, you know, if you think about where we’re staying, see, we are living down in here. Okay, we’re living down in here. Really wanted to. It wouldn’t have been that hard to get to. And that’s some of the old fortifications. But there’s the Bonhoff. And so Fesa Kaiser Alexander and Fort Constantine. Yeah. Which is where we’re at right here. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not real far. It’s on that major big road though. Which and then No, no, no, no. We went up to the fortress Kaiser Alexander. We did. Yeah. Can we do that just now? Oh, Lion’s Gate. Lion’s Gate is part of it. Ah, I see. Okay. So, yeah, there’s not a lot technically left of it, but Okay. So, yeah. Oh, all right. That’s all right. So, yeah, that’s cool. Yeah. [Music] All right. So, this is the Linishes uh Fastnax Museum, which is part of Fort Constantine. Uh they do special holiday openings, and you can pay the society 50 bucks and they’ll give you a tour of it and the castle, but you have to book it and only when one of their guides is available. And all their guides have real jobs. [Applause] [Music]

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Days 6 and 7

In this video, we document our last 2 days in Koblenz. With the train delays and cancellations, we had doubled up Trier and Saarburg so we would ride less. This gave us 2 full days to do as we wished and at a slower pace. So, on one day we went on a river tour and had some wine and cheesecake. The next day, we walked up the hill behind the train station and tried to tour the forts up there. We had never toured this area of Koblenz before.

I have changed the events from “day…” to “part…” because these last 2 videos have covered multiple days.