September Holiday: Saturday, 20.09.2025

The first photo taken that morning from our room doesn‘t look all that promising, but the day turned out to be summerly warm at 25 C and beautiful throughout. 

We opted for hiking shorts and short sleeves, and apart from the most dense woodland bits, I wore my sunglasses nearly all the time.

From a leaflet we picked up at the tourist information, we chose a circuit called Bernkasteler Schweiz (Bernkastel Switzerland), because of its mountains and rocks etc.

Shortly after leaving the last houses of Bernkastel behind, we reached a small waterfall.

Next was this tiny chapel on a rock above the waterfall.

From there, the path went through woodland and between meadows, up and down, along a beck and over rocks.

This very large parasol mushroom was about half way up my calf!

Bernkastel and the Mosel river

It was beautiful and there were some, but not too many other hikers about.

Reaching the end of the circuit, we decided to walk on to visit the ruined Burg Landshut (Landshut Castle), the one we have been looking at from our room and our table at the rooftop restaurant since our arrival the day before.

The foundations of the sturdy walls are what is left of a Roman castellum, built in the 4th century. The fortress was modernised and used for centuries, until a fire in 1692 destroyed much of it. It was abandoned after that and is now a very popular spot for tourists, with a restaurant and beer garden.

It did not take very long to get there, and we were hoping for a refreshing shandy, which we got eventually - but the place was so busy that we were seriously thinking about leaving again.

We also spent 1 Euro each to climb the tower and admire the view from up there before we walked back down into Bernkastel, crossed the Mosel on the central bridge and walked to our hotel in Kues.

Before showering and getting dressed for dinner (which was once again at the rooftop restaurant of our hotel), we sat on the balcony for a while, resting after having walked about 17 km all in all, and drinking plenty of water.

The last summer day for a while, and we really made the most of it.