Day 2 Trier to Belgium

Hotel very quaint in small village.  2 bedrooms and a sitting room.  Very clean and comfortable.    Food in restaurant excellent.

Wonderful breakfast at the hotel.  Lots of choices (meat & cheese).  We were on the road by 9:00am.  We drove along the Mosel River in the Mosel River Valley.  It was very scenic and with winding roads.  Grapevines lined the steep walls of the valley all along the road.  

 

 







We followed the road to Trier, the oldest city in Germany, established in 16BC.  The gate to city is called the Porta Nigra (Black Gate) it was erected in the 2^nd century and was the entrance to the city when it was a walled city.  In the 12^th century the gate was transformed into a church and served as a church until the 19^th century.   

Porta Nigra

 

We toured the gate and climbed to the top where we were able to look out over the city of Trier.  We visited the Hauptmarkt that dates back to the 10^th century, where we ate sandwiches for lunch followed by ice cream cones.We toured the oldest cathedral in Germany, Dom St. Peter.

In the afternoon we left Trier to travel north and into Belgium where we stayed at a hotel built in 1832.  The boys went swimming in the pool before dinner.  For dinner we had schnitzel (again) and Belgium beer.