cochem day 1

sorry... no Internet in cochem... made it to Munich... here are the posts we wrote but couldn't upload until now! I loved your comments about Paris. hope all is well!

josh:  a tale of two cities.... 

well we made it to cochem, germany!  it has been a huge contrast from the busy streets of Paris, of which Amy has repeatedly said she enjoys this town almost more than Paris!   (it might be bc it's the motherland or it might be like coming home from NYC... great city, but sometimes you just need to take a deep breath bc it can be exhausting.)  Rick Steves says the town has about 6,000 people, but the town is much more developed and larger than that because of tourism.   needless to say it's a great little town.

planning on going to see a castle today that has survived since medieval times, and was never attacked. (a feat for castle.). we'll see how it turns out... it's going to require a 1.5 hour hike to get there.

funny story of the day:
we were sitting in a  Beer garden with views of Mosel river and castle of cochem.  our conversation had been around practicing our key german phrases. (imagine spelling words at the kitchen table.)  then amy states,"it's kind of a bummer that we left France, my French was just starting to get good!".   I immediately started laughing as hard as I could.   she said, "what's so funny, I'm serious!" 

the laughter comes in because the night  before, on amy's very last interaction with a parisian.  we were at a food stand, we had already received our sandwiches and paid for them, and were about to walk away. this was what amy said...

store owner:  "merci". ( thank you )

amy:  "bonjour" (hello) (and then turning and walking away.)

maybe you had to be there but if you and imagine someone saying it to you in English, it's pretty funny.  she started laughing, even harder than me!

interesting observation: there are no bugs here... we've slept with our windows open (no screens) in france and Germany and not one moth or mosquito.

that's it from me... I'll let thea real blogger take over. I'm sure she'll tell you about the hotel we are staying at.