Yepp, we ended up staying at Kassel campsite for two nights while Mom is searching for a new place to look into.

Its lower course of the Mosel" twists and turns its way between Trier and Koblenz along one of Germany's most beautiful river valleys. The river flows through a region that was cultivated by the Romans. Today, its hillsides are covered by terraced vineyards where "some of the best Rieslings grow".Many castle ruins sit on the hilltops above wine villages and towns along the slopes. Traben-Trarbach with its art nouveau architecture and Bernkastel-Kues with its traditional market square are two of the many tourist attractions on the Moselle(what the Germans call it) river, and we stopped at both "again" Mom said

Here's a typical river cruise boat, doesn't look like the passengers are up yet, but not many are as early in the morning as Mom is.

Traben-Trarbach bridge 

This really confused me, I checked all three and it was the same water in all ????

Maybe you aren't the only dog served water here, Mom said

The German towns are so much more colorful compared to the French and that makes for a more cheerful atmosphere we think

Old winepresses are everywhere filled with flowers since they are using a different method to press the grapes now

The grape vines that grow everywhere are super nice and it's giving Mom ideas about her own garden 

It would have been super cool to hear these bells ring, and we were hoping they would do so every hour so we waited for a little while.

it never did.

Mom has become a real expert on finding parking for Lucy and sometimes I'm not sure it's a legal spot.

and In this case, someone else followed her cue

There may be two parking tickets for the police to write.

Mom says she doesn't think they write tickets here because people park everywhere, even on the sidewalks, and double-parking is the norm, which makes it really hard for Mom to navigate Lucy around.

On one of our walks, Mom found wild blackberries so she picked them and had them for supper with buttermilk and a cracker with prosciutto..............just like a Swedish breakfast.

The Mosel is gorgeous with steep hills where the rows of grapes grow so high and steep we wonder how they harvest them.

Lavender was smelling so strong and was so sticky I got several stuck on me

Makes you smell good Mom said

Driving around here can be a little exciting sometimes, especially when the road hugs the house corners and we could stop in the street and reach into their kitchens. Often there's no way to meet side by side, one or the other has to stop and let the other go first.

German are great drivers and flash their lights if they want you to go first, and are excellent at using blinkers all the time.

It's when they get on a bike they get vicious.

We left the Mosel and continued on North to a new adventure which I'll tell you about tomorrow because right now we're both exhausted from today's hike.

Gute Nacht 

and wet kisses to ya all