On Saturday evening we arrived in the Moselle Valley in the city of Trier. The city is a Unesco World Heritage Site and has many ancient Roman monuments. Trier, known as Augusta Treverorum to the Romans that founded it in 15 BC is an amazing place. This is the Konstantinbasilika that was Constantine the Great's throne hall and was built in 310 AD. It doesn't look that old, but when you get very close to the brick, you can see how unique it is. The actual bricks are thinner and longer then the ones that you see today.

On Saturday we drove toward the German Wine Road (Rheinpfaltz) in the Rhineland-Palatinate region. Jamie really enjoys geneology and this weekend we were able to visit some of the towns that his ancestors came from. This is the city of Neustadt. We also drove through Bad Duerkheim which is a spa town known for it's salinated thermal baths, that happened to be a ancestral town as well.

Neustadt