Luxembourg and Germany

So I think we could've planned yesterday a bit better. I think we should have realised that we were going to be tired from getting up early and from the ferry crossing and booked some accomodation closer at hand. We got into Namur (Namen) and we decided to go try the campground that was in the lonely planet. We got lost a bit and Gem found the traffic and driving on the right a bit stressful and then we found that the campground we were looking for wasn't even there! I think that it must have closed down and the lonely planet is just out of date. Not to mention the TomTom also thought it was there but there was still nothing :(. We ended up going to a youth hostel which ended up being great since we got a whole room to ourselves. Namur is pretty town with a scenic river running through it but all we did was walk around and take some pictures.

Since then we've crossed another two borders into Luxembourg and into Germany. We visited the Chateau de Bourscheid which had fairy-tale-like round pointed towers.



Of course we climbed up the tower and had a good view of the surrounding valley. Driving through Luxembourg we took a lot of smaller roads to get to the Chateau and we found that its a really pretty country. Following our friend Lazlo's advice we made sure we fuelled up in Luxembourg which was wicked because diesel was almost 20c cheaper than elsewhere. Yay.

We're now camped just on the edge of Trier and at the start of the Mosel Valley. The river runs right through Trier and its really pretty. They really know how to do rivers here in Europe. The Mosel and Rhine valleys will make up the first really scenic part of our trip so we're very excited to start travelling along the river tomorrow :).