By the time I reached Burg Rheinfels, a ruined castle high above the Rhine gorge near the Lorelei, traffic on the river road was solid. Burg Rheinfels dates from the 13th century and was once one ...

a kind of water sprite who is supposed to have sat atop the Lorelei rock. Legend has it that she so bewitched captains of ships on the River Rhine that they were no longer able to pay attention to the ...