What a lovely day in Siebengebirge and Bonn we have had! Most of the time, it was me, Mikael, Ina (his aunt) and Molly, the dog. Ina drove around through the forested mountains (Siebengebirge) and it was so beautiful!

We started the day at Petersburg Spa and Resort on top of one of the seven mountain tops in the area. It used to be the place where politicians of high rank stayed, presidents and such. Now, it’s a very fancy hotel with incredible view.

The next stop was Drachenfels, the next mountain top where there is a ruin at the very top and a fairly new castle a bit further down. The castle was built in 1883 and is very young compared to most of the castles down here in Germany. Molly was unfortunately not allowed inside the castle, so she and Ina waited outside while Mikael and I walked around inside. It was a cool castle. But you could tell that it was new, and it had taken furniture from different eras so it was not consistent with the 19th century for example.

The third and last stop of the day was at Die Rheinpiraten in Bonn, the adventure golf course that Ina and her husband Burkhardt opened in April last year. We have followed their journey and struggles of putting this dream of theirs into reality and it was so fun to see the final result. It was incredible! So well done and the quality of the course was amazing. Pretty decorations and fun courses. And that’s not everything. They have a biergarten where they sell drinks and light food. For lunch today, we took part in their flamekuchen tasting. On Monday they have to decide what to order, so they had 10 different types that needed to be tasted and evaluated. I’ve never had that before and apparently it’s a French pizza with a very thin crust. It was really good! I just realized that I didn’t take any photos of them, but you could google if you don’t know what they look like.

We have heard a lot of stories from Ina and Burki about what has happened there in the past year. As a former employee of a service place (Liseberg amusement park), I can relate to all of these hilarious stories. People :).

Around when they were about to close, the four of us went on the golf course. They had of course done it many times before, but Mikael and I did pretty well for the first time. 18 holes and reasonably hard courses. Mikael and I ended up getting exactly the same amount of points, so Ina picked a course to do over. We both got 2. But then I won on the next course Burki chose.

Afterward, we celebrated with ice cream, locally organically produced, and talked to Henning, their best employee.

A really great day in this local part of Germany 🙂 I know I might be a bit biased to family, but for reals, if you’re on Bonn, try out Die Rheinpiraten. Honestly the best adventure golf I’ve ever done. We have lots of them in Sweden, but none of them are themed, and this was such a great and well done theme very close to the Rhein.

Petersberg.

View from Petersberg over Bonn and Rhein.

Molly did so good on the trolley up to the Drachenfels.

Bad Honnef and Rhein.

The Drachenfels ruins.

We walked down to the castle from the ruins.
Winterskönig on this side of the Rhein, Bonn on the other side.
Schloss Drachenburg.

From on top of the tower.

They even had a beach at the course.