Today we leave the Netherlands and our friend Mars. We head south for the German city of Trier. We pass through Belgium along the way. The landscape changed in a very dramatic way about 1.5 hours out of the Netherlands. We have lots of rolling large hill with little valleys tucked all sung in between them. There were lots of wind turbine and solar collector farms along the way.
The City of Trier is the oldest city in Germany it was settled by the Romans and has many artifacts still remaining. It was also home to the Emperor Constantine.
The Cathedral has been modernized a good deal and the meeting room has also been turned into a church and very heavily Baroqued. But you can still see some early construction there if you look.
The bones of St. Matthew are said to be held in this box.
There are so many great things to see here I am sure we could stay for a day or two to take them all in, alas we are on a mission to get to Hungary before the weekend and there are lots of other things to see and do along the way. Since may family decends from him I really wanted to have a look at someplace he would have been. I am pretty sure it will be awhile before I get to Turkey, got to do it since it was on our road south.
Today is mostly a travel day that will get us to the Romantic Road and then on to the road to Fussin and the Mad Kings castle on Tue. For tonight we head to Rothenburg ob Tauber, a very old walled city.
