Trier; Wednesday, 03 August, 2011

First stop of the morning was the open-top bus stop. With a couple of hours left on the 24 hour ticket I thought I’d make use of it to shuttle between the sights I wanted to visit.

First on this list was the Ampthetheatre, located just on the edge of the city centre. Having looked round that I hopped back on the bus and round a couple of stops to the Basilica and then the Imperial Baths.

From the Imperial Baths it was a short walk to the Viehmarkt baths in their glass cube. Final set of baths of the afternoon were the remains of the Barbara baths. These were in the process of undergoing conservation, so you could only view them from a single viewing platform on the edge of the sit.

The Baths are near the Römerbrücke, the largest, and oldest standing roman bridge north of the Alps. It’s quite amazing to watch modern cars drive over something that was built by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago.

I went for a wander along the banks of the Mosel down to the Zurlaubener embankment, where I was just in time to catch a boat for a short cruise down the Mosel and back.

From the river I walked back through town and was in time to have a quick look round the cathedral before it closed for the evening.

Then it was back to the hotel to freshen up, before popping back out for a bite to eat and then bed.