When froggy meets Scotty

Saturday evening and a day of travel for the wandering duo. Randall goes to Wiesbaden by taxi and then train along the Rhine. He backtracks past the villages where he walked in 2012. They look much the same and wonders what Yvonne will think of these places when we visit in a few days time.

Yvonne catches a bus from central Edinburgh and arrives very early to make sure she gets the flight. And on time and as planned your duo resume their lives together.

The Wiesbaden area is quite industrial and apparently nothing to compare with the Highlands. Looks tough. Smells different and a bit of a culture shock. Germany is on holidays and in any case there is no commercial activity from early Saturday afternoons until Mondays so the city centre is very quiet.

 

Nevertheless the duo walk through the old town whilst Yvonne downloads heaps of stories about puffins on Staffa Island, Inner Hebredies (now wants to go Outer Hebredies), Orkney Islands and Edinburgh. Wonderful people, wonderful seafood and a great learning experience. If you are lucky then you might get a proper blog or two from Yvonne on her Scotland experience.

 

Apparently Scotland is much much better than a boring old walk in the backwaters of the Rhine. Nevertheless, Randall does manage to get a few words in about his walk from time to time.

Now we are well rested and ready to explore the better parts of the Rhine area. Staying in Bacharach for a few days now. Cute town and surprisingly not much going on. A few tourists about but not as many as we expected. Are we here with some geriatrics and Americans looking for a different experience? Is the European economy really that bad? How will we ever know? But we are here in the now and enjoying the area.