Hi, I will be heading to Frankfurt later this week. I have also purchased 4 day rail pass for unlimited travel. Any good ideas about day trips?? Thinking about Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Heidelberg, etc.---Hamburg and Dresden are far and too ambitious for day trips!
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Lakewood, Colorado
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What about the middle Rhine - Bacharach, St. Goar, etc? Unfortunately, you didn't need to purchase a rail pass for that short trip. I think I Heidelberg would be a good place. If it were me, I think I would try the Northern Black Forest. Start in Pforzheim and go up the Nagold river to Calw, a very small, mostly fachwerk village, hometown of Herman Hesse. Then go farther, to Freudenstadt, called the capital of the Northern Black Forest.
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Frankfurt, Germany
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For Day trips from Frankfurt, consider Wuerzburg, Buedingen, Seligenstadt, Aschaffenburg, Marburg, Idstein, or Bad Homburg. These are all rather close to Frankfurt, so a pass wouldn't be needed really. To make use of a pass, you might want to head down to Stuttgart and Tuebingen, or Regensburg. Even Munich is only 3 hours away with the ICE. The Rhine is also a good choice, and you can ride up and down both sides of the river, seeing about 40 castles in 1 day.