One of the things we learned on the tour is that Frankfort is the financial center for Germany and even for the EU as the European central bank is located in this city.These two towers (even though you can not see that they are separate towers fr…
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Important visitors in Frankfort
The tour we took allowed us to get off and on the bus at strategic stops. This stop was close to the Center of town were the government buildings are located.Everything was barricaded off and it seemed like all the Germain police were there to gu…
Frankfort from the bus
We boarded a guided bus tour of Frankfort and took in the sights from the top of the double dekker. The weather had been “off and on” but we enjoyed a good day with no rain. Here we are crossing one of the bridges over the Main and it is quite di…
Frankfurt walking tour
Here we are in one of the busy streets of Frankfurt with the main rail station in the back ground. We soon got tired of walking around and after having a quick lunch at one of the booth’s we looked for a guided tour on one of the double decker bu…
Frankfurt am Main
We are back……I know it has been a while since our last posting. That is because we went to Holland with our friend Geert Kleinbleumink. While in Holland we visited our friend Ken who was on his boat in Weesp.Weesp is close to Schiphol (Amsterdam ai…
"Get Out Of Jail Free Card"
Yesterday was another first for the crew of Big Run. After spending another night on San Domingo Creek south of St. Michael, MD, Sharon and I decided to head over to Cambridge, MD. About 2 hours into the cruis…
A Summer Hiatus
The abrupt cessation of posts since my last on May 8th is in large part a reflection of an unexpected juxtaposition of events in the recent weeks since PUFFIN arrived in Solomon’s Island, Maryland. (Continued…)
Some more Castles
Castles on this section of the Rhine (Koblenz to Bingen) are plenty full.Sometime you see two or more from one vantage point.
More Rhine
The traffic on the Rhine can be very heavy at times with with sometime two coupled together. These can be as long as 180 meters long. (over 500 ft) this is not long as compared to the traffic on the Mississippi but considering the much narrower R…
Transiting the loreley
One of the sharp narrow bends in the loreley. We are following a cruise boat.The black board with the white lights (three on top of each other) in the right of the photo lets up stream traffic know what is coming down stream.
