Amy calling number listed in Rick Steves’ for the Lusty Music playing Tourist Tschu Tschu train up to St. Goar’s Castle:
Hello? Sprechen Sie English?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Are you the train that goes up to St. Goar’s Castle?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Are you running today?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Where are you? And when do you leave?
Man: Where are you right now?
Amy: In front of the train station
Man: Oh, just come, I am right here. You see the church?
Amy: The red one?
Man: The red and white one.
Amy: Oh, okay, where are you?
Man: Just walk past it.
Amy: When do you leave?
Man: Just come down here and we’ll talk.

We walk down, past the church, and we are very confused, doesn’t a train need train tracks? But no, not this one. This one is a Mercedes Benz Tractor pulled train. Oh yes. With Lusty Music.
We walk up to the front,
Amy: Hello? This is the train up to St. Goar’s castle?
Man: Maybe?
Amy: ????
Man: How did you get my number?
Brian (lifts up his Rick Steves’ Book): Rick Steves’
Man: That book is great, It’s like the bible. He has my number in there??
Brian: (flips through pages) Here!
Man: (takes the book) Yep, that’s my number. (admires the tabs (Brian added these and he is constantly saying how they’re awesome) Man gives it back to Brian)
We get on the Tschu Tschu Train and have the ride of our lives through the tiny streets of St. Goar, in full view of all the locals. If you think seeing people on a carriage ride is ridiculous, imagine seeing two people on a two car Tschu Tschu train going through a pedestrian zone. Yeah. That was us.

+ Ate a free hearty breakfast at the hostel. We had our own reserved table, no one else was in the room so we had a private room too. Brian had a name card because he reserved for the hostel. It said, “This table is reserved for: Brain von Osdol.” They made him German. + It was a very cloudy and dreary day. + Caught a boat to cruise down the River Rhine. It was the only one with people waiting. All the other boat docks were empty. + We read Ricky Steves’ River Rhine tour guide. Learned all the crazy legends that exist in the area. We also learned why there was a naked river nymph painted on the wall of our hostel. It’s the Loreley! + Another fun activity was watching for the ridiculously large kilometer markes along the river. Ricky apparently erected these several years ago to help people with this tour. Amy also noticed another tour company using them. How do you just put up huge signs along a scenic river?! + Got off at Rudeshiem after a three hour cruise. + Rudeshiem was very touristy, and on the opposite side of the river. Looked at coo-coo clocks, carved figurines, and Christmas ornaments. + Failed at finding a quick bite to eat. Ate bread we pilfered from the hostel breakfast. + Took the train back even though we had round trip tickets for the boat. + Back at St. Goar on the opposite side of the river, Brian followed an Italian school tour group to find the ferry. + Caught the tschu-tschu train up to St. Goar castle. (see story in seperate post) + Used Ricky’s St. Goar tour guide for the castle. It was cold and drizzling. Brian’s hands turned into ice cubes from holding the book. + Cut through a vineyard to get from the castle to our hostel. + Defrosted Brian’s hands back in hotel room. + Ate dinner and the goofy receptionist helped us find the train schedule to get to Berlin. + Reverse engineered a German crazy window. (video coming soon) + Organized photos and wrote these blog posts. (Will we ever find internet? If we do our blog will suffer an explosion of posts! Woot!) + A student drumming group arrived at hostel. We heard them practicing. But they weren’t as loud as the noisy kids acorss the hall. + sleep zzz +

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