Rhinegau, Germany: 26th Feb- German rivers

Another holiday in Germany and we decide to take another train, but this time in another direction. We decide to go on a trail along the river Rhine. The Rhine river valley is famous for its vineyards, and the local farmers often offer wine tasting. After about an hour on the train, we reached a small town called Rudesheim. Anticipating a grape laden beautiful place, we stepped out of the train. Small town, not many people. We caught a path to get to the top of a hill and followed a trail. This place is supposed to have vineyards, which it did, but unfortunately, we didn't realise we were visiting it in the wrong season. All we found were empty vineyard fields with only stubs of what would be supports of grapevines. But nevertheless, being surrounded to the ends by such fields on the hills was a unique experience altogether.

It was cold already and it started drizzling soon after. All along the path, we were accompanied by the mighty river Rhine on our left. We could see a lot of carrier ferries on the river. There is no river bridge connecting the two cities located right across the river and cars are transported by these huge ferries. There was also a ruined small castle situated on a hill top besides the river.

A very pleasant experience during the trip were all the German people we met on our way. Germans are very friendly by nature and all the people we met (mostly couples on a similar hike as we were), greeted us. We also chatted with two aged couples who were on this hike for a health walk.

We reached a smaller town of Assmannshaussen. All these small towns have their names written in large letters on the top of the hill that they are situated on, just like you would expect in Hollywood. This was a very colourful small town of Germany. So colourful that it resembled a fairytale land. But it was all closed! We could see no person on the streets. After long, we saw a person and we asked him about the town being all closed. He told us that it was a Winter Sunday and everything is closed, not even a single restaurant would be open. Well this place probably had all people who owned vineyards and thus they need not work all time as we need to ;)

Germany is so loaded with awesome cars! In Frankfurt cars like Mercedes, Volkswagons, Audis, Porches, Ferraris, and BMWs are common, but even in this small town, all cars were worth admiring, cars that are a luxury in India! Admiring awesome cars was one of the best things of our stay in Germany.