October 16, 2022 Some more Rhinelarking, a visit to Gothic ruins above town and info on the wonderful little café we we ate at so often.

There was special game using an app going on at the nearby castles today and there were cars parked everywhere. along the road.

Looking in the other direction there were parked going out of sight also. With the throngs of people playing, we decided that doing something else was probably much better, and besides, in the past we had visited these castles.

Birds of a feather flocking together on the rocks in the Rhine.

Larking involves a lot of bending. Maybe this is Linda’s aching back pose.

She kept very few finds today, partly because so many were too big, and also because this was the same section of river bank we had larked the other day, so she already had most of the “good stuff”.

Below is a gallery of a few of what we were finding.

The gray slate is what makes the Rieslings so awesome and the last photo is what is out in the water, meaning it is out of our reach. None of these items were kept.

This was another stay on the Rhine where we did not go on a river cruise.

The easy way to cross the highway between the Rhine and the town, go under it.

When she picked this leaf up and held it out in front of me, I knew what to do.

Starting up the 112 steps to ruins above the town. The reason I know how many steps there were as because after climbing all the way up, she counted all of them on the way back down. Climbing all those steps in the multistory school building she attended sometime last century apparently caused irreparable harm to her psyche when it comes to stairs today.

the view from part way up.

More stairs. Is she going to make it?

The ruins of the Werner Chapel which was built in the late 1200’s and early 1300’s. It fell into ruin in the late 1600’s. It was built to honor a boy who supposed murdered by Jews and whose body was found in Bacharach. After finding the body the Jews living in the region were murdered by the locals. The boy was even canonized a saint by the Catholic Church even after the King over the region had completely exonerated the Jews of any wrongdoing.. In the latter part of the 20th century he was stripped of his sainthood and Pope John XXIII apologized for the atrocities the Catholic Church had committed against the Jews.

In the 1990’s the ruins were renovated.

Do you see what I see?

Following the gargoyles with a gallery of some of the flowers we saw around town.

A few photos of the market square area.

The wonderful small café we ate at over and over.

The owners were very special.

Their story.

A glass of Riesling makes for a happy girl.

Bratwurst perfectly grilled.

David and his grandmother, his parents were busy. A family café that made us a part of their family during our stay. If you are in Bacharach please stop in for a meal, you’ll be glad you did.