{"id":7569,"date":"2020-01-29T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2020-01-31T20:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T02:12:28","slug":"europe-crossing-the-north-eifel-to-ahrweiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/other-destinations\/germany\/europe-crossing-the-north-eifel-to-ahrweiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe: Crossing the North Eifel to Ahrweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Europe 2019, blog 8\/9 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After our brief stop in romantic Monschau, we crossed the North Eifel to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. There we stayed in the vacation rental <\/a>of our friend Imgard. Together we enjoyed the Christmas Market and again the next day when our friend Cora came to visit!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 29<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

North Eifel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Eifel is a low mountain range with remnants of old settlements. The hills, river valleys, limestone rock formations and small calderas make for some beautiful scenery! The northeastern corner, where we were going, is a red wine district. We crossed the North Eifel from Monschau in the Rur Valley to Ahrweiler in the Ahr Valley and decided to take the rural route! Very pretty, but the winding narrow roads were also tiring haha. Sometimes you were allowed to drive 100 km\/h there, which we couldn’t imagine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valley of the Ahr<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After a lot of those winding roads and passing towns like Schleiden and the city of Bad M\u00fcnstereifel, we arrived at the Valley of the Ahr. The picturesque valley has several small towns, some with ruins (Altenahr) or other old remnants (the oldest bridge over the Ahr in Rech), all with a lot of vineyards. We visited this area a bunch of times when we still lived in the Netherlands, the most memorable visit was when we took Reginan friends there in 2005<\/a>. We had named the ruin in Altenahr “Sandy’s Castle” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t