Flemming got up early and brought us breakfast – bread, yoghurt, fresh berries:
That day we wanted to visit the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, overlooking Koblenz from the east bank of Rhine, 118 metres above the river:
Flemming and I took the cable car and got there, to the top.
Beautiful panorama opened up – with the view to the Deutsches Eck, where the Mosel river joins Rhine.
The fortifications existed on the hill since 10th-9th B.C. They have seen many wars… Today, the fortress is a museum. There is a park on top of the hill, and many families go there during weekends.
Flemming and I went for a walk around the fortress, sometimes the path was quite steep.
View to the Villa Rheinburg:
We took another, smaller cable car down on the southern part of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, and a small boat back to Koblenz.
The life was going on in the town. There were many tourists, cafes and restaurants were full, people were happy.
Flemming showed me a magnificent monument, he discovered when going to the bakery. It was The Koblenz History Column where the sculptor Jürgen Weber recounted the 2,000 years old history of the settlement of Koblenz from Roman times till the present day in ten pictures:
The History Column is a present of Rhineland-Palatinate to the town of Koblenz for its 2,000 anniversary in 1992.
In the evening, there was a free public party on the square by that Column – music, light, people were dancing. We never found out why. Flemming and I also danced a little.
At 23:30 the sound volume was significantly turned down, and at 24:00 – off. People left, and it became silent – respect for those who live nearby. That could never happen in Copenhagen! (unfortunately)
Flemming and I went to have a drink in a cafe by our “home”. Mine didn’t have any trace of alcohol, it was like drinking juice. Flemming was wiser – he ordered wine:
It was our last night in Koblenz. The day after we were going to Colmar in France.
