Famous for its castles, the middle Rhine Valley makes an ideal place for an all-day field trip. As a guest at the Institutes Conference on Syrian, Palestinian and Lebonese Diasporas, I got to party on the boat with others from the dept as well as conference attendees.
View of the Rhein from the Niederwald Monument/Statue of Germania (1977-1883) built to memorialize the end of the Franco-Prussian War
http://www.rudesheim-rhine.info/z-niederwald-monument.htm . We hopped on the boat here and commenced eating and drinking.
Anton Escher, the head of the Institute of Geography is an excellent host, and was helped by a host of students and lecturers.
Including Gregor, geographer and tennis player...
And Eva, who had been "volunteered" to film the conference,
And Lisa (on the right).
It is a pleasure to be around fun people. We went past the Lorelei and then back to Bacharach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacharach , a small medieval village. Some stayed and played. Some of us came back on the bus, but didn't make it past the Hauptbanhoff before we decided more food and drink across the road were the order of the evening. A totally fun day.
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