today is the day that we transfer ships. As I have mentioned before the water is quite low to the south of us so our ship cannot go down the river and another ship cannot go up the river. So we transfer between identical ships and continue on our …
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21-June-2017 (Wednesday) Bamberg, Germany
was a very short day for us in terms of activities off of the boat. This morning we got up for the usual breakfast and then it was pretty much cruising all morning. At about 1:30 we got off of the boat and transferred to a bus to go into the city of …
20-June-2017 (Tuesday) Würzburg, Germany
today was a full day. We started out at 8:30 in the morning and did not get back until 5:30 this afternoon for the thing this morning to Rothenberg on der Tauber. This is one of the best examples of a walled city remaining in Germany. The wall is …
19-June-2017 (Monday) Miltenberg, Germany
did a brief technical stop in Aschaffenburg to offload guests for a full day excursion which we elected not to do. After we unloaded the all-day people the ship continued down the Rhine. During the morning we had a glass blowing demonstration. The …
18-June-2017 (Sunday) Koblenz, Germany
we woke up in Koblenz. Koblenz is located at the confluence of the mind and the Mosel river. Some of the people on the ship took a tour of the Marksburg castle which sits on the hill above the city. Being as it is a new castle built in the 1850s, we …