Training Log Archive: billa

Long walk with Mumsey around Amsterdam before disembarking the cruise. Then another long walk from the hotel getting to know the south end of the city towards the museums. Enjoyed viewing the traffic on the many canals crossing the city. Will use them tomorrow to get around.

Enough walking today in Cologne to call it training. Lots of sightseeing interrupted by shopping and a bit of the church service in the cathedral.
Finally, after 30 years I found the boiled pigs knuckles that I used to enjoy in the German tavern in Montreal in days gone by. With hot mustard and sour crout and mashed potatoes.
Here they serve the beer in very small, tall glasses so it is always fresh. It was really good and at a refreshing temperature but not too cold. The waiters bring the small glasses of beer by the dozen in special trays. The tradition is to chug the first one by the time he puts down the second round. A cool idea but we sipped our first one like champagne. Yum.
Snoozy time now back at the boat.

Lots of walking through castles, parks, and shopping districts in and around Koblenz. Lots of eating, drinking, and sitting on busses and bars too.
I will go for a long hard walk tomorrow morning before the ship departs. I will!

Lots of walking but I can't call it training. Guided tour of Strasbourg amid thousands of other tourists and school kids. ABC - another bloody cathedral but it was huge. The Notre Dame, 100 years to be completed and the highest structure in Christendom at the time. 16th century I think.
Then we went on a wine tour and walked around another town that starts with an O. Very nice wine though. Three cheers for Alsatian wine. Smooth and aromatic and low in tannins.
I will see what kind of headache I have in the morning.

Rhine river cruise. Nice walk up and around the castle at Breisach. Bus tour of the Black Forest area (St. Peter) in the morning. Eating has slowed down a bit but it will be hard to keep all the weight off!