Germany – Day 4 – October 20

We made our way to the Old downtown area today. We started with a stroll down the beautiful Rhine River Promenade. It was fun to see all of the families out for a walk or bike ride. There were some exceptional photo opportunities, my favorite of which was a block of buildings just off the Rhine in what I believe they call patrician houses (don’t ask me what that means, I’ll have to look it up later when I have some time). Whatever they are called, they were beautiful. We also saw some sheep grazing on the banks, which was very odd to see in such a large city and a wonderful old sailboat on display just off of the main river.

We then made our way to “the longest bar counter in the world”, which is an entire street of restaurants that are all side by side. Unfortunately, this was also the street that seemed to see the most broken glass, so we only made it half-way before deciding to take a side street out before Dave popped a tire. From there we wandered back across the newer downtown area to some of the shops we had seen, but not able to shop at on Sunday. We finished our day by stopping into a Greek Restaurant just down the street from our hotel (I have almost burned out on Wurst & beer/wine). Then we headed back to the room for Baklava & tea before bed. I satisfyingly exhausting day. Tomorrow is the 2nd half of Dave’s procedure and the most painful. Last year he had excruciating headaches for the day of and the day following the re-injection, so it will be an early night and hopefully enough rest to get us through the next 2 days.

p.s. we had room service ordered up on Monday night – forgot to mention this – We decided that Dave’s was prettier, but mine was much more satisfiying (or at least more filling). I know that was the information you were all waiting for . . . ok, well maybe not, but it was still funny!