My travels to Germany
Cochem
Cochem
As Cochem is a real tourist town of course you can find everything a 'real' tourist desires. There are many tourist shops with all the 'real-tourist-have-to-have-thingies' you can imagine. There are plenty of restaurants, hotels, rooms, pensions There is also a youth hostel and a campground. Cochem somehow lost its own identity though, in many of the restaurants for example they serve the typical 'tourist food'. But there is one thing they still do have, and that is their own wine, and plenty of it! So if you like a Mosel-wine there is no shortage of places where you have a taste or buy some bottles.
Wine region
Vinyards in the Mosel valleyCochem is located in the Mosel Valley, about 51km (32 miles) South-West of Koblenz, where the river Mosel flows into the river Rhine. This picture was taken somewhere along the river Mosel. Cochem and the whole of the Mosel valley is known not only for its castles, but also for its wine. And that is clearly visible in the picture! There are vineyards as far as the eye can reach. On the most unimaginable spots you can see vine-grapes grow. Hahaha, it is sometimes really amazing which small patches of land they use to grow these grapes.
Wine region
grapesThe main production of wine in the Mosel region is white wine. It was actually forbidden for a some years ago to produce red wine, with the exception of small portions for personal use. The most important wine in the region is the Riesling but there are more varieties of wine that are produced here. You can't visit the Mosel valley without tasting or buying some its wine!
Castles along the Rhine and Mosel river
Schloss StolzenfelsOn this page about Cochem I've focused on the castle of Cochem itself, but there are many more castles in the region that are worth a visit. On this same day for instance I also went to Schloss Stolzenfels in the Rhine valley. I made a separate page for that on the location of Kapellen Stolzenfels.
Waiting, waiting, waiting....
Flight delay :-((After a perfect day.... a not so perfect end :-( Sigh, waiting, waiting, waiting.... and more waiting! I guess I run out of luck, this was for the first time I had a major delay like this with Ryanair.
The airport of Hahn isn't that big, so this also meant a very booooring wait, nothing to do or see here to kill the time. Sigh, 3 hours later (11 o'clock at night instead of 8 o'clock in the evening) we could finally board the plane. But despite this looong wait, the daytrip was a huge success! I would do it again, hahaha, even if it means another of those loooong boring waits ;-)
