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Reasonable time frame for visiting several places???

Posted by (Fredericton, NB, Canada) on

My husband and I will be travelling from Amsterdam to Koln by train and plan on taking the early train (7:04 am) which will arrive in Koln at 10:00 am. While in Koln we want to visit the Cathedral and have a little time to explore. We would leave Koln on the train at 12:18 and travel to Moselkern by train and from my calculation we would arrive there at 14:07. How long should we have to get to Burg Eltz? From what I can find the last train to leave is at 15:43. We were thinking of trying to get to St. Goar that night or would we be better off to spend the night at Moselkern and travel to St. Goar the following day? We would like to take the boat from St. Goar to Bacharach and then take the train to Rothenburg. Is all of this possible in the time frame? From what I have read on the helpline it sounds like it would be possible but would like the advice of others who have visited these places and would know the time frames better than me just trying to look at maps and schedules.

Thanks, any help would be appreciated as we have to book a room in one of the places and we are not sure which would be the best schedule.

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Just offhand, I would say you are pushing it a little.

Last November I traveled from Cochem to Hannover (Braunlage, actually, but no one knows where that is), stopping for 2 hrs in Köln for lunch. I needed the one hour for lunch, but 1 hour for the Cathedral was either not enough time or too much.

According to Bensbauernhof (www.bensbauernhof.com) it take's about an hour (4 km) each way from Moselkern to Burg Eltz, so you are not allowing enough time. There are no luggage lockers in Moselkern, but if you have a few minutes in Koblenz, there are lockers there.

I would probably suggest you stay in Moselkern, but getting to St. Goar, taking the boat to Bacharach, and then going to Rothenburg might make a long day.

One suggestion, and I don't know if this would make your schedule more realistic, is go to the Marksburg in Braubach instead of Burg Eltz. It's only a 15-20 minute hike to the Marksburg. From there you take the train to St. Goarshausen. It's right across the river from St. Goar, and the boat stops both places.

Burg Eltz and the Marksburg are a little different; Burg Eltz is more "lived in", but Marksburg is maybe a better example of how people lived back then. Both of them have been there since the middle ages and neither was ever destroyed.

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