Name: 旅遊英文 (Germany's Romantic Rhine and Rothenburg)
Uploaded: 2017-07-20T07:38:14.000Z
Duration: 26 min
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HI, I'M RICK STEVES, EXPLORING MORE OF THE BEST OF EUROPE.

OF GERMANY'S VILLAGES AND EVOCATIVE RUINS.

WHILE MOST OF THIS COUNTRY IS AN URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL POWERHOUSE,

THIS EPISODE IS ALL ABOUT STORYBOOK GERMANY.

AFTER CRUISING THROUGH  A FAIRY-TALE WORLD

WE'LL CLIMB THROUGH MY FAVORITE  CASTLE IN ALL OF EUROPE,

AND CHECK OUT A SLEEPY  AND LAID-BACK ALTERNATIVE

LEARN THE HISTORY  OF CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS,

AND EXPLORE THE BEST-PRESERVED  MEDIEVAL TOWN IN GERMANY,

WITH  SOME HELP  FROM THE NIGHT WATCHMAN.

WITH OVER TWICE  THE POPULATION OF CALIFORNIA,

THIS TIME WE FOCUS ON GERMANY'S  ROMANTIC RHINE REGION.

VISITING ST. GORE,  BACHARACH, AND KOBLENZ

BEFORE EXPLORING THE MOSEL  RIVER AND THE ELTZ CASTLE.

THE 36-MILE STRETCH FROM MAINZ TO KOBLENZ

IS BY FAR THE MOST INTERESTING, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE EXPLORING.

LIE ALONG THE IMPORTANT TRADING ROUTES LIKE THE RHINE.

IT TOOK BIG MONEY TO BUILD THE STRUCTURES

THAT WE TRAVELERS WOULD MARVEL AT CENTURIES LATER.

THE RHINE HAS BEEN ONE  OF THE WORLD'S BUSIEST RIVERS

TODAY THERE'S A STEADY FLOW OF BARGES WITH THOUSAND-TON LOADS,

WHILE BUSY TRAIN TRACKS  AND HIGHWAYS LINE BOTH BANKS,

ALL UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE  OF ONCE-MIGHTY CASTLES.

MANY OF THE CASTLES WERE  ROBBER BARON CASTLES,

EXTORTION STOPS, BUILT BY PETTY  PRINCES AND TWO-BIT RULERS

BACK WHEN THERE WERE 350  INDEPENDENT LITTLE STATES

THE SHIPSHAPE PFALZ CASTLE,  ACTUALLY BUILT MID-STREAM,

RAISED ITS HEAVY CHAINS  ACROSS THE RIVER

ONLY WHEN THE MERCHANTS  HAD PAID THEIR DUTY.

ALONG THIS STRETCH, THERE WERE  CUSTOM STOPS LIKE THIS

NO WONDER MERCHANTS  WERE EARLY SUPPORTERS

OF THE CREATION  OF LARGER NATION STATES.

IN THE MIDDLE AGES, EMPERORS, POPES, AND THESE LITTLE PRINCES

IN GERMANY, THE EMPERORS CONTROLLED THE PRINCES.

THE POPE ESTABLISHED HIS POWER OVER THE EMPEROR.

THIS ALLOWED THE LITTLE GERMAN PRINCES TO GO WILD

THAT'S WHY MOST OF THE CASTLES ALONG THE RHINE

AS THE EMPEROR BEGAN REASSERTING HIS CONTROL

OVER THE PRINCES, THESE CASTLES SAW ACTION.

WHILE THE CASTLES  SURVIVED THESE BATTLES,

AND THEY FELT THE RHINE  WAS THE LOGICAL BORDER

TODAY THE RHINE CASTLES  ARE ENJOYED AS RESTAURANTS,

AND TRAVELERS CRUISE THE RIVER  JUST TO CASTLE-WATCH.

BUYING TICKETS FROM A KIOSK  BEFORE BOARDING,

TOURISTS CAN PUT TOGETHER THEIR  OWN HOP-ON AND HOP-OFF TOURS

OF THIS MOST ROMANTIC STRETCH  OF THE RHINE.

ALONG WITH TRANSPORTING  CAMERA-TOTING TOURISTS,

THE CAPTAIN AND HIS FAMILY  LIVE IN THE STERN,

LOGICALLY, IMPORTS LIKE OIL  GO UPSTREAM,

AND EXPORTS LIKE GERMAN  MANUFACTURED GOODS

THE POWERFUL RHINE HAS LONG  BEEN TREACHEROUS TO NAVIGATE.

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