After three
pleasant days moored up in Diez, we set sail this morning heading back towards
the Rhine. The Lahn has been pleasant, but not a trip one would necessarily
repeat. The highlights have been Bad Ems, Diez, and, of course, Limburg itself.
But Limburg could more easily be reached by train or car, I think. The
landscape on the river is fine, but not very varied – steep wooded hillsides
climbing out of sight.
Anyway, we
spotted another castle to add to the collection, though the light was wrong for
a good pic:
The locks
mostly worked well, though at one (this one with the goats)…….
…..one of
the gates stuck. The hi-tec solution, when the three (male) technicians arrived in a
van, was for the young, female, student lock-keeper to give it a good push, which she duly
did!
Plenty of
canoes on the river – this lot came through a lock with us, and we caught an
arty photo through the port hole in the aft cabin.
Tied up at
Bad Ems once more now: disappointingly found the Russian church closed again,
though the priest said it would be open in the morning. Then we’ll go on down
to Koblenz and make that a base for more sight-seeing, before we head across to
Regensburg to meet up with friends from the US.
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