Thursday, August 5: leave Houston (or other points of departure)
Friday: arrive Paris; lunch; nap; great dinner; then the Paris Night Skate—meet with 10,000 or so other skaters at 9:00PM and skate 18 miles through the city!
Saturday: Free day in Paris
Sunday: Free in the morning, then skate again with a slightly smaller group (5000?), about 15 miles through the streets of Paris, but this time in daylight. Then take the train to Thionville, France on the Mosel River.
Monday: Start the downriver trip to our hotel in Remich, Luxembourg—30 miles of paved path on each side of the river.
Tuesday: Leave Luxembourg for Germany and spend the night in Trier, a roman town founded in 4 CE.
Wednesday: On to Neumagen—should be plenty of wineries, biergartens, and castles to tour!
Thursday: Next up is Traben-Trarbach, with lots of Art Nouveau buildings…and lots of wine and beer!
Friday: Skate on to Cochem and finally get ready to NOT skate for a day!
Saturday: Take the train to the next town, then hike up the Eltz River valley to Burg Eltz, a spectacular 12th century castle—we’ll approach it just like travellers would have 800 years ago. Then when we get back , we’ll head up to Cochem Castle for a 4 hour medieval banquet including a falconry demonstration, jesters, lute playing, and BIG JOINTS OF MEAT! And beer.
Sunday: On to Koblenz, where the Mosel and Rhine rivers meet.
Monday: Down the Rhine river, past the Lorelai, and on to Oberwesel, where we’ll be staying in a gorgeously renovated castle--Burghotel auf Schoenburg. The restaurant is closed to the public on Monday nights, so we’ll have the banquet room all to ourselves for a special meal just for the guests.
Tuesday: Further down the Rhine, past Bacharach and Bingen, then on to where the Rhine meets the Main river at Wiesbaden, which has been a spa town for 2000 years. Hot springs and massages anyone?
Wednesday, August 18: A short train trip brings us to Frankfurt and our flights home.
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