Koblenz

I’m baaack. With only one day dropped out due to DNS problems. I am back on Starlink.

On the appropriately named Sundeck, with Aperol Fizz meanwhile back on the way to Koblenz.it was castles, some restored some not, up on the hills and down on the river primarily to exact tolls on goods coming upriver.

And finally, one on an island with a tragic story of a bride and his mother improsined for love.

There were at least 20 castles and ruins on a stretch of the river, each with a story or two or a legend. We finally moored about 3:00pm in Koblenz right in front of a statue of Wilhelm I. The statue was built by his grandson, Wilhelm II, Willie Jr was German Emperor until the late contretemps that ended in Novembert

Our tour guide walked us through town, past a church that was founded athousand years ago, past a section of original Roman wall that was two thousand years old and eventually brought us to a tower erecte4d in the mid-90’s to celebrate 2000 years history in Koblenz.

But Koblenz actually goes back 2000 years to a Roman fortification on the edge of the empire on the Rhine. Across the River were the Franks which the Romans had an uneasy peace with.

After we got turned loose from the tour we rode the cable cars up to the fortifications on top of the other riverbank/

Our ship and a sister ship moored.

It was a quick up and back down for the view we returned to the ship for a good dinner.

Next stop is Cologne, and the famous Cologne Cathedral.