Small village’s with “Fachwerk” houses Countryside with grain fields which are already turning colour and soon to be harvested.And as usually in Germany old castles on the hills.
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Old Germany on the Main
The first 85 Km up the Main are not the prettiest. Lots of industry, just like on most of the Rhine. But after Aschaffenburg (km 85) the scenery changes and industry gives way to pretty villages and beautiful and large old buildings.
From Offenbach to Wertheim
Monday June 27th and we left from Offenbach under clear sky’s and with 30 deg. weather.This is one of the few times that we could navigate from the bridge.
Erlenbach
We arrived in Erlenbach yesterday. Erlenbach is just over 100 km up the Main which is about 1/3 of the way to Bamberg where we have to take the Main Danube canal . we came through 9 locks and have 25 more to go before reaching Bamberg.We received a nic…
Frankfort the financial center of Germany and the EU
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…
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…
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.
