Well we organised someone to look after the kids, so Jane and I could explore a little of the neighbouring cities and decided Koblenz was a decent shout for a visit. Old, pretty, near on the Rhine and Mosel rivers, decent shops etc. We headed on down from Düsseldorf on the Saturday morning having booked a nice hotel on the Rhine overlooking the town and one of the many historic buildings. 
We wandered the streets for a while, did some shopping, and visited the Deutsches Eck, where the Mosel meets Rhine, statue there etc, 
It was a nice town, lots of churches, squares and narrow streets, and what seemed to be a statue of Super Mario of Nintendo fame, though I’m sure it wasn’t; never did read the plaque. 
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On the way home on we took a detour to Königswinter, a beautiful town on the Rhine with a castle and Schloss Drachenburg. We took the cable train up to the top of the hill overlooking the town, to see the castle. Way too steep to walk up, but we walked back down. The castle wasn’t the best to look at to be honest, not much left of it. No doubt my youngest, Jamie, would say “it’s just a pile of bricks”, which I suppose it was. But we walked down anyway and planned on taking some photos of the Schloss, but that cost extra, so we had to make do with this photo taken through the railings at the back. 
It’s a beautiful building by all accounts, and from photo’s we’ve seen elsewhere. Never mind. But I did manage to get to play with my camera on an old building we found on the way back and play around with it afterwards. 
Walked around the village a while, coffee, ice cream etc. Nice place, recommended to visit.