Meanwhile, Koblenz’s main square is filled with stalls overlooked by the city’s largest Advent calendar ... wine tastings ...

IN THE soft morning mist, an ancient Swiss castle seems lost in time. Called Schloss Marschlins, it’s on the edge of a quiet Swiss village called Igis in the Rhine Valley. Built in the 1200s ...

The Sun Deck of the Scenic Opal proved the perfect place for castle-spotting as it cruised through Germany’s Rhine River Gorge where more than 40 of these fanciful remnants from the Middle Ages ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great ...

"Of all the many hoary towns lining the narrow shore of the Middle Rhine valley, none is so impressive, so intensely medieval as Oberwesel..." - Professor Edmund Renard, 1922. Schonburg Castle has ...

Photo / Supplied Kate Webster takes a fairy-tale journey down Germany’s Rhine River, where castles and cathedrals rise above quaint villages, and storied waterways reveal themselves at every ...