Touristing in Trier

04-09-12

LUXEMBOUG – DIEKIRCHE

We gritted our teeth and suffered the 35minute train ride to Kathys birth town of Diekirche on the other side of the country and after a trip to the cemetery, had a bit of a wander around the village...sorry Kathy, town, and had a coffee in the main square. The brewery wasn’t letting people in. So we jumped back on the train to Mersch to check out the chateaux and the Roman ruins. Both of which found some finding and were unworthy of the effort.

We chugged back into Luxembourg, jumped on our tredlies and found a suitable Italian restaurant and bedded in. The ride back to the hotel was fun, interesting and a little bit dangerous.

Old Diekirche tradition of useing donkeys as piggy banks
 

You call these Roman ruins?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TODAYS BEER

MOUSEL

I've missed this baby. Although getting harder to find, a good all round beer with lovely head and colouring to be enjoyed at anytime.

 

 

 

 

05-09-12

LUXEMBOURG – TRIER

Herr Flick insisted we visit Trier to examine it’s Roman heritage and we promised we would. To be quite frank, we were worried he would check up on us if we didn’t. There probably would have been a test and we would have failed.

So, a day trip to Trier was in order. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much but was quite surprised. The cathedral dated from the 5^th century, the Roman gate was still complete and about 20 metres high. A fair stretch of the Roman walls were still intact, there were Roman bath complexes, an amphitheatre and the Roman bridge across the Mousel is still in use today.

We returned to Luxembourg happy and slept soundly.

Old Roman Gate at Trier

TODAYS BEER
WARSTEINER
I love a beer in a big pilsner glass and this one delivered on flavour, clarity and aftertaste as well despite it's lack of colour depth.