Koblenz; Saturday, 30 July, 2011

Today was about visiting the Horticultural show. With an early breakfast under my belt I headed over to the main entrance to get my ticket and take in the show.

The show is based over three sites in the city, two the Electors palace and the space behind the Deutsches Eck almost next door to each other. The third was up on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress which overlooks Koblenz from the other side of the Rhine.

I spent most of the morning taking in the gardens in the Electors palace and then wandered down towards the Deutsches Eck. I stopped there for a quick lunch, and then took advantage of the free boat trip included in my ticket to sail up the river to the small town of Stolzenfels and have a look around the castle there.

After looking round the castle I caught the boat back to the Deutsches Eck and then picked up the Cable Car to take me up to the Ehrenbreitstein fortress. I had a very quick look round part of the site, but it was so large I was going to need the whole of Sunday to do it justice, so instead I hopped back on the cable card down to the Deutsches Eck and was in time to watch a concert being given by a German Beatles tribute band.

By the time the concert had finished it was getting quite late so I wandered back through town to my hotel and bed.