WAITING FOR THE ROMANTIC LORELEI – Bacharach / Germany: out of time and inside the memories

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man is you, inside your existential experience, where you breathe and see, hear, eat and feel it.

The nearest airport is in Frankfurt. http://www.germany.travel/en/index.html Not far away, there is a village that seems straight out of a book of the Brothers Grimm. Bacharach, this small village in Germany, http://www.bacharach-germany.net/ has just 1800 inhabitants, but when you walk through its streets, you will understand what the words are not able to describe. In the Rhine Valley, you will be enveloped by dense forests and picturesque views, but getting inside Bacharach, you will be enclosed by its medieval walls. When you have gone through one of the arches from the main road, as if by magic you find yourself catapulted into another century, walking between small houses and towers, postal stations and a castle (where you can sleep at a good price).

Bacharach? Old World Germany! Cobble stone streets and quaint German timber style houses just a stone’s throw from the Rhine River, can be your home for the next two nights. We waiting for you in the lovely cozy hotel restaurant, for a hearty German schnitzel dinner (complete with two glass of Riesling). Bacharach Highlights? St. Goar & Rheinfels Castle, a castle in ruins from the 1200’s, overlooking the incredible Rhine River. This castle was intact until the late 1700’s when the French Revolutionary Army destroyed it. You then can cruised the Rhine River, back to your hotel in Bacharach, http://www.bacharacher-hof.de/en/inhalt/restaurant/ where we can enjoy German cooking. The food it is so good and we can have some traditional dishes (like wienerschnitzel, sauerbraten and spaetzle), as well as the seasonal specialties with mushrooms and some other meat dishes.

16 kilometers upstream from the town of Bachrach, along Autobahn 9 and 42), you can find the famous rock bend along the Rhine called Lorelei. The Rock lies a few minutes south of Burg Katz, and is famed for producing an echo, associated with the middle ages legend of a beautiful maiden who threw herself into the Rhine, in despair over a faithless lover and was transformed into a siren who lured fishermen to destruction hence the cruise boats honk their horns when passing by the famous Lorelei Rock. At the top of the rock is a hotel and even restaurants. http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rhine-cruise/index.html