[000:00:00;00] ah, a hi there, i'm here all and i'm back on the road again in my we green b, so this time arrives. i'm exploring, i land floods. first up, i'm headed to book as castle and i'm also really looking forward to a spectacular trained journey through the middle ride valley. and my colleague lucas steger will also be traveling along a river in the beads of all moselle valley ah ah

ah ah. who adds castle, what a you i feel against stepped back in time into another world. it's almost as if i should have written down here on a horse. all right, let's go check it out. the else family have managed to keep the castle in their hands over the last 8 centuries through careful diplomacy and smart marriages. mm. well, at 1st glance at fashionably seems quite impressive,

doesn't. in workouts was built in the prime of medieval construction between the 11th and 13th century, deliberately near the missouri river. historically, one of the most important trade routes in germany nowadays, whilst it's obviously beautiful, i think living here could come with its challenges. inclusion that protected it in the past might make modern life here, more remote than most of us are used to. and these stone walls must be expensive to heat in the winter time to see what it looks like on the inside. i want to find out what life here would have been like during medieval times, but also what it's like to live here today. so of course we don't have any access into the private quarters of the family that lives here right now. but the man who resides over the whole castle or the lord of the manor, i guess you could call him his agreed give me a private tour of the rest of the castle. ah count. yeah.

cold fun and to ed took over the castle, ownership from his father in 2018. he has another home in the area regularly spend time here at book where he grew up, where it was last time you actually spent the night here is that something that you do often earn your cars regularly. so the 1st, the last time i spend the night was about a week ago. and is it something that you consider a luxury being inside the castle? i know a lot of people would wonder what it's like for you. it certainly spirit shirt. i wouldn't. i wouldn't necessarily call it luxury. we do have, or the modern amenities, but it's still a casa and casa, were never really luxurious. they were spilled, so it's, it's not as luxurious, maybe someone would hope, but it does certainly feel special. this castle certainly has an atmosphere, of course, is that something that you still experience, especially ones people have left in the evenings and it gets quiet and you're in

a it has a very, very special atlas and, and there's also a kind of a sense of belonging here that way, for some reason i just feel totally at home. well perhaps you can show me range more of your home. i would absolutely love to thank you. mm hm. so one of my favorite features in this room, this is our cove. you had a problem because this is one of the lowest floors and he wanted to do many things amongst them all to pray and read mass. but there was a low back then which stated that you weren't allowed to place yourself above god. and that also meant you weren't allowed to live above the house of god. so the only way to do that was to build an alcove which had its own roof and above the roof was

only the sky. and so you could still use the floor above was being able to read the miles here and say you actually kept the law in letter, if not necessarily in spirit. me. ah ah. so the bed is a lot larger than it looks. it's about one me to a t wide and 2 meters 10 long. okay. and the reason for that is because the whole family would sleep and this would be the both the parents as well as the church and what it was in order to preserve the heat. that's why you have the captain's. and that's also wise built up because he wanted to catch the rising heat. that's why back then people usually climb into bed and today we usually fall into the scene painted across the bedroom walls is

a playful one. its philip phallic and fertility symbols. ah ah sir, this is what you could imagine the living room of a wealthy family and with evil ages to root like one of the most visually attractive things. either to tapestry said i hanging here. now tapestry is evolved in the 14th century or even earlier because he would put cloth up in order to make the room woman more comfortable, the water up to one and a half meters thick. so obviously they were very cool. the artists had heard stories of table plans and animals from people who had gone traveling around the world, but had never actually seen them themselves. so the animals and plan to see her. you'll see some aspects that seem familiar. but overall, they are not,

not how the animals live in real life. true the faces are elizabeth, warped. me. so this is one of about 40 hire places in the car. so with about 80 rooms that means every 2nd room had of high pace, which was an extraordinary luxury time i can imagine. and it will hind iron a cost i in facts which heated up. and once they were hot, you could pick them up with certain tongues and bring them to next room, which didn't have a fireplace, and that would give off the heat ferry. and if it, if it is me. so a castle like this probably requires quite a lot of upkeep on the right. i would certainly does. we are constantly renovating repairing. there's always something that needs to be done all the time. it takes

a lot of energy and also a lot of finances, which is why we're so grateful for guests because without them, none of this would be possible. i mean, this is one of my favorite pieces as well because it's a big wooden chopping block. it's not actually stone a fight it's, it's just the blood and the grease and i'm from 10 trees. but the wonderful thing about it is this house is finished in 1311. and this is the 1st floor says the lowest room as well. and we measured it and the chopping block fits neither through the wind and north through the door. so it must have been here when they finish this room. wow. so this is probably one of the oldest pieces in the car. absolutely. and cancel.

i'm with haven't often, it's a breath of when you have a heating place, you have a table where you can sit down and enjoy a meal. you have a place where you can wash your dishes. afterwards, you have a chopping block even have a fridge. well, hats off to german technology. but what's it like then for you when you're staying here? i mean, do you have dozens of staff waiting on you? do you pick your own a cook, my own meals and i actually have absolutely no staff looking after me here. no, they stays very long, very long gone. we. i live a very modern life and i don't have any stuff enough to me with

. well, thank you so much for everything that you're most welcome. it was lovely to chat to you to hear about your story. it's great meeting you. thank you so much. thank you for. mm. who's after so much history. i think it's time for me to take a little break, but my colleague lucas fig. i will be taking over with a visit to the motto valley. ah, ah

wow, it's pretty dark down here in pretty chilly to. i'm in taba on the mozilla river. the city is known for these underground silver balls. well we, what kind of seller is this yellow one had f as in lune, one of the largest sellers of the todd and harbor underground tafel, no wine selling like a bank. unfortunately, they no longer used to such to day harbor is complete. there are sellers under the whole of tom taba because at the end of the 20th century, it was a huge wine trading center. people said it was the 2nd largest wine trading finch in europe after bordeaux in france, vall door, when in the year 1898 alone, some 18000000 leases of wine made their way from here out into the big, wide, wide, and even vacant because of i to that, the 1st thing all visitors notice above ground is the bridge gate on the missouri

ill at the beginning of the 19th century, that was enough wealth year to commission, the well known berlin art, nouveau, architect, bono, mewling, he not only designed the bridge gate, but also a number of villas art nouveau, architecture characterizes cotton club up to this d. a great place to start my journey along the muzzle. ah, today i want to find out why the moselle is one of the most beautiful river scapes in germany. so i'm off for right along a part of the mozilla psychopath from cobb kaba to call him. but that's not all. i'll also be finding out why moselle wines are so special. ah, the nice thing about a bike path that runs along a river is that it's fairly flat,

at least as long as it's close to the water. the moselle velli also offers a lot of beautiful panoramas. but for those you have to paddle a little harder. ah, but it's worth taking. the d 2 are uphill. here, for example, are the ruins of grieving book castle built in the 14th century. it was repeatedly attacked, destroyed, and rebuilt, until it was finally blown up in the 18th century. from here i can get a fantastic view over the missouri valley biking along the muscle. i can definitely recommend that most of the time. you can ride along the water boy from cars and streets through natural landscapes or small wine growing villages. the river and the wine somehow they belong together, especially near became. it's where you'll find the comment, probably the most famous vignette in germany because of its steep slope. i meet the

winemaker martine. hasta vall miss. why is the wind from the missouri also special? how does that differ from other wind assign yeah, kata? it's the soil dorski theft ion because we have these steep shale slopes. the slate found at these elevations warms the vineyard slightly. you vine bag and not due to its dark color. the slate stores heat die and or sign a door which is emitted to the grape vines. little by little. and you dunbar, not one, not oper. give it. that means it's always a little warmer. up here on the hill than in the flatter areas are wonderful. and that helps the re sling most of all to ripen. well, ivan, because riesling is a great variety that ripens relatively late notice, but so here are the reasons matures nicely without acquiring too high and alcohol content. and due to the shale soil violence, it has a great morality. natalie tend to susan, chief of warden of the vineyards into the in a teacup. matthew also shows me his wine shop where you can taste the fruits of his labor as

a wine maker. ah love, what have we got? yes. lucca who i have selected a wine for you via involves a wrestling of course, from the vineyard we just visited in our steam vine back in denver. give it a try. vincent orange should 1000 on previous to did my with pleasure. so to your health asthma's arden to void. what should i be tasting? what is unique about this wine is it is all correct. it's for the vine. generally, it has a slightly peachy aroma thick. as is the case with many, reese links, if holidays, the nice really characteristic thing about our recent grown on the steep slopes, is it slight morality shed, which makes it taste a bit salty and puffy? if you let the wine dance around a bit on your pallet, but it develops this characteristic quality and a certain lightness product of official windows. i, even though it's quite mature,

it's a bit lighter will under and doesn't have such a high alcohol content on bison. i'm lice tonisha, that's what makes the mosul and it's shale soils. so special thought he bewanda had cable ones on them was everybody's machine. if a border along the muscle, the cycle path runs on both bags of the river on route, you can always find fairies to take you to the other side. i still have a few kilometers to go before i'll reach my destination co, him visible and the distance is column castle. it looks old, but only dates from the 19th century. cobham has just 5000 inhabitants, but it's much visited city,

many moselle river cruises set off from here. i've got one last tip for you and call him take the cable car up to the pin up back. from there you have to hike a little further over the rock to the pin quotes. this cross was put here in memory of a shepherd. wanted to safe one of his animals from falling and died in the process . from this spot, do you have the whole panorama in front of you? i could stay a little longer. i mean it's obvious. take a look at this perfect new overcome anthem was ill. see you next time. my terry drew rhineland. black. ne continues this time in the neighboring state of

north ryan with failure in the city of cologne. welcome back on terry with me and my veto were in cologne now. but my car will be taking a little bit of a break because i'm going to take the train back sized to the rank valley. ah. this regional train in the state of rhineland prolactin. it stretches along the river riding, riding past old german castle as vineyards and impressive rock formations. all right, let go. catch our train as our train

and we're off very important tech. he should sit on the left hand side of the train so that you get all the best views of the river, right. the rain is a life line and an important transport route through europe. on its way to the north sea, it flows through 6 countries, tourists from all over the world, come to this part of the rain to explore that fairy tale castles and villages. here . the journey from cologne to mines takes about 3 hours. if you write the whole way without stopping several trains run the route every day and tickets start at around 20 euros. ah, our 1st stop a saint gore to see the low ally. this massive rock is associated with an old german legend which was more to lies by german poet heinrich. hi. not making it

globally famous. it's also symbolic of the so called rain romanticism, which honor is the landscape and culture of this area. i'm heading to a restaurant which overlooks the little delay to find out more about it. story. oh dear, thank you. how are you? fine. what can i do for you? i would like to try vision it, phil here, please. okay, that's a very good decision. the grandmother, and since we're here and we have such a beautiful view, maybe you can tell me why they're lorelei is so famous. of course, this is a long history because the lorelei, she was a maiden and she was sitting on the top of the local. i rock what you can see here . and she was storing her golden hair with a comb. and she was singing songs. and you know, like you see here to ship the ship a men and this time to coming by here. and they're looking up to her because it's a maiden and she's very beautiful. and then they're just looking up. but there don't look on the on the rhine river and there were many, many,

a big rocks in the river. and then suddenly day crushed into and the ship sunk. and i take it, that's a legend more than actual fact ralph, cause it's a legendary of to say that, but the letter is because in this point, this almost a deepest and most soonest point on the whole rhine river. and in this point here, there was many, many ex accidents in the past. it. 7 thought that the nearby tiring of faint gore here was actually settled in order to help 3 injured sailors who could navigate the narrow waters on whose boats had been shipwrecked. it's part of the middle ryan, which is today a unesco world heritage site. okay, let's hope back on board and see where else

a journey has to offer. ah, my next stop is just 20 minutes away. being in, i went to see the famous moiz at worm here. let's head down to the water's edge to get closer. look, we should find another old castle ruined here and a tower in the middle of the river. so here you can see aaron palace castle. and on this side, there is there more as a tool or mouse tower, and it got its name from an old folk tale. legend has it that a cruel ruler hatchet the 2nd oppressed and exploited his peasants. he grew angry, but before they could rebel hatcher devised a cruel trick. he promised to feed all the hungry people and told them to go to an empty barn. but then he locked the doors, set the barn on fire, and burned them all alights, shouting, hear the mice, squeak. when he returned to his castle,

it was immediately besieged by an army of mice. he fled to his tower on the river, hoping that the mice would follow, but of course be dead. they crossed the river, reached the island, 8 through the towers doors and then ate the cruel ruler alive. didn't i say there were gonna be some gruesome stories on this journey? ah, back on board for the final stretch of the trap. ah, i can't believe how much there is to see here in such a short no journey. definitely the most beautiful stretch that i've seen in germany . wouldn't you agree? finally,

we've arrived in my mind since about an hour, i say to frankfort, and it's one of germany's oldest time. it has a beautiful, old time fill of old half timbered houses, but the main landmark here is the mines cathedral. this marvelous work of architecture from the middle ages was built over a 1000 years ago. but it is perhaps most famous for its wine. there are hundreds of independent wine growers, makers, and sellers here. this local wine bar is run by bass then guy isn't a wine professional from the netherlands. is today noon 9. so why is this region actually so famous for is why we're in the middle of 2 very important, a growing areas and a lot of going on over a lot of like you young, why make us? and this is why mine is one of them. well,

why and hotspots are in germany. and since we've just done the feedback train journey, i had to ask you, hi, do you like the region wide everywhere? yeah. everyone brings wong from young to all people. you have all those wine festivals. a lot of like wine bars were not the only one by my eyes, and you have to memorize just wine. everybody. if i drive like a timothy of like one hour, i can almost visit, although gentlemen, stop growing areas are top wineries, which makes just a very, very interesting place to live. and that's why there are so many amazing ways. yeah . ah. back in cologne, in the state, just north, right westphalia. i'm back in cologne after my beautiful train journey book as castle, the mosul valley and the middle, ryan valley, all gorgeous locations. i can definitely recommend in the state, but i land fights the next time job

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