{"id":340,"date":"2012-05-07T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:54:24","slug":"day-25-drachenfels-dragons-rock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=340","title":{"rendered":"Day 25 &#8211; Drachenfels (Dragon&#8217;s Rock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we met Maike&#8217;s parents Elizabeth and Joseph, who are also lovely, and had very kindly taken a day off to take us to find the Dragon that lives in a cave at the Drachenfels. The Drachenfels is a 320m high hill which is about 30klms away from Koln, next to the village of Konigswinter which is on the Rhine. The Drachenfels is close to the Rhine and upstream from Koln and was the source of much of the rock for the Dom.<\/p>\n<p>At Drachensfel there is a car park is under the autobahn and there is a visitor&#8217;s centre. At the visitors centre there is a cog railway that takes you to the top where there are ruins of a monastery. We sat in the ruins and admired the view of the Rhine and over Bonn. We looked for the dragon but it must of been hiding. Sophie was glad of this because Chris told her that the Dragon will eat the smallest child it can find.<\/p>\n<p>After taking in the view we took the cog railway halfway down the mountain to Schloss Drachenburg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00088.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-355\" title=\"Looking up the cog railway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00088-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Looking up the cog railway\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00088-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00088-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00088-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking up the cog railway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC000921.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-357\" title=\"View from Drachenfels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC000921-300x67.jpg\" alt=\"View from Drachenfels\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC000921-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC000921-1024x232.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC000921-500x113.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Drachenfels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schloss Drachenburg is a private castle built between years 1882 and 1884.owner then owner Baron Stephan von Sarter (1833\u20131902) a broker and banker planned to live there, but never did.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-358\" title=\"Schloss Drachenburg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00142-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Schloss Drachenburg\" width=\"584\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00142-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00142-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00142-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schloss Drachenburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After visiting the dragon castle we took the cog railway back down the hill and drove to Maike and Lucas&#8217; apartment for a dinner of quiche and salad.<\/p>\n<p>After dinner we packed enough gear or overnight and spent the night at Maike&#8217;s mum and Dad&#8217;s place in a village about 40 mins from Koln called Katzen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC001901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361\" title=\"Beware of Dragons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC001901-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC001901-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC001901-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hugin.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC001901-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beware of Dragons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we met Maike&#8217;s parents Elizabeth and Joseph, who are also lovely, and had very kindly taken a day off to take us to find the Dragon that lives in a cave at the Drachenfels. 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