After all that binge-drinking in Munich, it took us 3 days of going sober & eating healthy to feel good again. I couldn't believe just how quickly I got fat from 3 days sitting down & drinking. A lesson hopefully remembered for a long time to come.
The train ride to Trier with our bicycles was pretty exhausting. We had to catch 4 trains over the course of 7 hours. 1st was a Munich metro train full of locals angry about the space we took up. 2nd we had a nice spot for the bikes however we had two severly disabled & annoying women sit in our 4-seat section even though the train was mostly empty. If they weren't calling Munich shit and weren't yelling at each other, they were pulling apart a roast chicken with their fingers and grossing up the joint. 3rd train was fine. 4th was another regional train full of locals on their way home from work. We stood for an hour on that train with our bikes and all our gear.
Eventually we made it to Trier and made it to our AirBnB accommodation which had it's own kitchen. Laura eagle-eyed a vietnamese restaurant on our way to the accom, so we ate Pho for some tastes from home & hit the hay.
After our train woes in Munich the first thing we did was check our tickets to Luxembourg were in order. Turns out for that train you don't even need a seperate bike ticket. While there at the station, saw a lot of what we believe to be migrants trying to sort out train tickets with minimal English skills but with huge wads of cash in hand.
Today was spent going to all the toursit sites. Trier has over 2000 years of histoy beginning with the Romans, so there was plenty to keep us busy. One of the main attractions was one of the original city gates built by the Romans in 200AD! This thing must have towered above all else back in the day, incredibly tall for such an old piece of architecture. It is named Porta Nigra or "Black Gate" due to the discolouration of the stones caused by bacteria.
I was interested in seeing Triers Amphitheatre, an arena used for fighting & performances, so we headed there but Julie's blood sugar levels dropped dramatically so we turned back to get her some coffee and sandwiches first!
They have this tourist card called an 'Antikencard' for 10E so we bought some of these which allowed us access to the main town museum & two other historical sites 'of our choice'. Starting at the museum they had HEAPS of artifacts, more than I think they knew what to do with! spear-heads, pottery, jewelry, coins, gravestones, mosaics, etc! Laura's favourite section was of the intricate jewelry designed for the horses of well-off Roman families to exude their wealth. I think my favourite was the area of floor-sized mosaics pulled from expensive Roman houses from the around the area. Apparently the residents of Trier keep digging for construction jobs and just keep finding more stuff. One example being over 2000 gold coins from 4th centry AD in an old chest of a collapsed basement!
Visited the amphitheatre, full of icky spiders but very cool. Then realised our tourist card did not allow access to the place we wanted to go so ended up climbing up the Porta Nigra before retiring to our kitchen to make Herring Stirfry Curry & ice-cream for our future trip planning session.
The train ride to Trier with our bicycles was pretty exhausting. We had to catch 4 trains over the course of 7 hours. 1st was a Munich metro train full of locals angry about the space we took up. 2nd we had a nice spot for the bikes however we had two severly disabled & annoying women sit in our 4-seat section even though the train was mostly empty. If they weren't calling Munich shit and weren't yelling at each other, they were pulling apart a roast chicken with their fingers and grossing up the joint. 3rd train was fine. 4th was another regional train full of locals on their way home from work. We stood for an hour on that train with our bikes and all our gear.
Eventually we made it to Trier and made it to our AirBnB accommodation which had it's own kitchen. Laura eagle-eyed a vietnamese restaurant on our way to the accom, so we ate Pho for some tastes from home & hit the hay.
After our train woes in Munich the first thing we did was check our tickets to Luxembourg were in order. Turns out for that train you don't even need a seperate bike ticket. While there at the station, saw a lot of what we believe to be migrants trying to sort out train tickets with minimal English skills but with huge wads of cash in hand.
Today was spent going to all the toursit sites. Trier has over 2000 years of histoy beginning with the Romans, so there was plenty to keep us busy. One of the main attractions was one of the original city gates built by the Romans in 200AD! This thing must have towered above all else back in the day, incredibly tall for such an old piece of architecture. It is named Porta Nigra or "Black Gate" due to the discolouration of the stones caused by bacteria.
I was interested in seeing Triers Amphitheatre, an arena used for fighting & performances, so we headed there but Julie's blood sugar levels dropped dramatically so we turned back to get her some coffee and sandwiches first!
They have this tourist card called an 'Antikencard' for 10E so we bought some of these which allowed us access to the main town museum & two other historical sites 'of our choice'. Starting at the museum they had HEAPS of artifacts, more than I think they knew what to do with! spear-heads, pottery, jewelry, coins, gravestones, mosaics, etc! Laura's favourite section was of the intricate jewelry designed for the horses of well-off Roman families to exude their wealth. I think my favourite was the area of floor-sized mosaics pulled from expensive Roman houses from the around the area. Apparently the residents of Trier keep digging for construction jobs and just keep finding more stuff. One example being over 2000 gold coins from 4th centry AD in an old chest of a collapsed basement!
Visited the amphitheatre, full of icky spiders but very cool. Then realised our tourist card did not allow access to the place we wanted to go so ended up climbing up the Porta Nigra before retiring to our kitchen to make Herring Stirfry Curry & ice-cream for our future trip planning session.
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