It was killing me that Boppard was our last stop before we headed for home. We spent 5 nights here at Hotel Garni Gunther in a balcony room facing the Rhine. It was the most expensive of all our rooms, but there was the wine fest going on that weekend, plus the fireworks. So I'm sure that had plenty to do with it. The staff there was great, and their English was pretty perfect. Our room was plain, and the bathroom was the smallest by a mile. But who cared... we certainly didn't plan on spending much time in it.
By the time we arrived at the train station from Rothenburg, it was already getting a little late. We figured we would get there after the front desk staff closed up for the night, so they emailed me a code to get into the locked lobby, just in case. Since we didn't really have to rush, we ended up eating at a place near the train station, called Gleis 3/4. Kind of a weird name but nothing weird about the food, It was really good. Our waiter helped translate the menu, and we each ended up with a delicious Turkish dinner.
It was about a 10-15 minute walk to our hotel and they were still there when we arrived. They grabbed our luggage, and showed us to our room. We freshened up and hit the streets. God forbid we should just stay in our room. It was dark and everything was pretty much closed up by then, but we were able to get the 'lay of the land' a little bit. Back to the hotel and the comically miniscule bathroom and shower. We unpacked a bit, and that was all she wrote for the day.
We spent most of that day in transit... I see what people mean about losing a half day when you change locations. Fortunately. we only had a single one night stay, so our travel days weren't too frequent. When we did have to move locations, it was almost like part of the adventure. We didn't move so often that the days became like a tour of all the train stations, but I can say that I wasn't crazy about learning those ticket machines on the fly. I can also say that we did not once get lost, or turned around, or on the wrong track, or the wrong car, or anything else.
