Pfalz Tour 2004 - Day Eight - Annweiler & Trifels

Day Eight - Annweiler & Trifels Castle

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	The "Annweiler Amblers" visited Annweiler
	A street in Annweiler
	Annweiler Museum entrance
	Vera & Mary enjoying the town
	A bridge in Annweiler
	MEANWHILE: The "Trifels Trekkers" hiked up to Trifels castle
	View along the hike up to Trifels Castle
	Woods along the road
	Group with tour guide at an overlook part-way up to the castle
	A tower and "gateway" (which had to do with the system of bringing water up to the castle)
	Ken on lookout
	View from the castle
	Trifels castle, where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned in 1192-94
	Distant tower from lookout point
	The castle from the point
	A precariously-balanced tower
	Entrance to the castle
	Ascending into the castle
	Ceiling inside the castle
	Trifels was the depository of the royal insignia until 1800; replicas are now on display in the castle tower museum
	Bejewelled cross
	View from the top of the main tower
	The valley below
	Trifels Trekkers group shot on top of the castle