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Yesterday we left Wasserbillig and continued on the road to Vianden.\u00a0 Such beautiful scenery but we were disappointed we hadn’t just driven a little further along the road where we would have found several much nicer camping grounds than the one we stayed at in Wasserbillig, but you just don’t know what is around the corner.\u00a0 We don’t have any internet or phone access\u00a0on the move and are relying on getting wi-fi at camping grounds which\u00a0 gets expensive when you are paying a couple of euro a night, but it means we can’t find anything and have to resort to old methods of roadside signs as we drive.<\/p>\n

Vianden is a really lovely little village down in the valley where the huge\u00a0imposing castle looks over it.\u00a0 We had a coffee down in the village before walking up to the castle and having a look around.\u00a0 Very cheap to get in – only 6euro each which is so reasonable.\u00a0 The castle was started in about 850 but was fully built by about the 12th century.\u00a0 It went into a very bad state of disrepair over the centuries as it was passed from one ruler to another.\u00a0 By the 1900’s there was rooves missing and walls lost, so in about the 1970’s the castle was taken over by the Luxembourg government, who rebuilt it back to what the believed it had been like – from paintings and drawings done over the centuries.\u00a0 An amazing and impressive castle.<\/p>\n

As we walked around the castle we witnessed an American fellow proposing to his girlfriend which was so lovely.\u00a0 They were from Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

We spied a lovely looking campsite from the castle so stayed there last night and since it is so lovely and peaceful we may stay again to night and what is on the agenda for today…….Nothing but sitting and enjoying the peaceful setting.\u00a0 Although I have to say the little river looks almost deep enough to swim in – so if it gets warm enough we may just do that as swims have been few and far between since leaving Aus.<\/p>\n