Today, due to water levels (complicated story) we changed ships. We drove about three hours to Nuremberg through lovely rolling Bavarian hills. We stopped at one of the three biggest locks on the Main-Danube canal. River cruising in Europe is new, well this one at least, as the Rhine and the Danube did not link until a canal was built, opening in 1992. Even for a non engineer I found it very interesting.
Arriving at Nuremberg we lunched and then toured, what is obviously a very interesting city which we just skimmed the surface of, in two hours. Medieval era, meets industrial and Nazi eras. All very interesting. Would loved to have walked the old city wall.
Then to unpack and settle into our new ship. Welcome cocktail party and dinner half way through trip was a bit weird!
At Easter I stood several nights on my Narwee balcony imagining when I would see the moon next in Europe. Tonight we have played cards in our cabin watching the western sky as the moon set. Ah .... That was until we entered a lock and we lost the final minutes! Such is river/canal life!
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