<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cmccool:
..I will concentrate on Saarburg and Trier. Have you/anyone been to Saarburg? Thanks!</font>
Sorry, I have not. However, I know the area and I looked at this
http://www.saarburg.de/frameengl.html.
This Saarburg looks real pretty ... located in the Saar Valley, hilly ...
Trier, Germany's oldest city:
ANTE ROMAM TREVERIS STETIT ANNIS MILLE TRECENTIS.
"Trier was there one thousand and three hundred years before Rome", that's what an inscription on the Red House in the Main Market says. It's an invention of the Middle Ages, but it has an historical background. In the valley of Trier there were indeed human settlements already in the 3rd millennium before Christ, and Trier was the first place in Germany which could really be called a city...
And Karl Marx was born in Trier ...
http://www.uni-trier.de/trier/geschichte-e.html
I think you will like the trip ... good food, good wine, nice people and nice scenery..