Some Bread and Circuses: To the Promised Land!

The Wonderful and Amazing Wife and I have recently returned from our 2nd international excursion in 6 months. While there are no more trips planned yet, we're digging our mini-streak of jet setting. This time we paid a visit to the promise land, the land of beer and Oktoberfest, the land of schnitzel: Germany. This was my third trip and the Wonderful and Amazing Wife's first trip over. Here's a little taste of what we crammed in during the 8 days we were in country.

We stayed in Göllheim, a very old very European looking town, neat place. This is just a house around the corner from where we stayed.

This is a church that was right across the street from where we stayed, parts of the church were built in 900 A.D.

This is a little vineyard we stopped at on our first day there. Beautiful countryside, rolling lush green hills, heavily speckled with wind turbines (we heart renewable energy!) awash in sunshine (except for that day)
and grapevines.

Falkenstein, it's a castle built in 1135.

The Amazing and Wonderful Wife and I chillin' in what we believe was a chimney in the ol' castle.

Remnants of one of the walls of Falkenstein.

Porta Nigra (the black gate) built by the Romans over a thousand years ago, in the town of Trier, which is the oldest town in Germany.

This is an old tower in the town of Donnersberg, I don't remember how old it is. I'm guessing it's been around longer than anything around here. The stone steps inside were worn down in the center from people walking on them. Or from shoddy construction. We mustered up our mustard and pushed through our fear of heights to go the top.