The beautiful Loreley

More stuff to do around the boat this morning, including another shopping expedition to Lidl – whose own brand Queen Margot whisky, by the way, proves to be both palatable and affordable.

After lunch, we decided to take a trip in the car, and drove back up the Rhine to the Loreley, eager to see what it looks like from the top of the cliff, having experienced the bottom.

This is the statue of the lady, who I understand lured sailors onto the rocks: perhaps understandably they lost their concentration.

Here’s a double coal barge pushing upstream,

and to illustrate the density of traffic, here Diana caught five boats in a single frame. Incidentally I calculated there were 150 or so containers on the last one, taking quite a few lorries off the road.

One of our pix inadvertently included a castle – sorry about that:

After all that excitement, we decided to cross the river on one of the many ferries that weave in and out of the barges and cruise ships:

Making our way back to the mooring we passed through the wine town of Boppard, and couldn’t resist stopping for a glass of Riesling…..no surprises there!

Tomorrow we are heading over to Regensburg to meet up with our friends from the US, so the blog will take a break. We plan to be back on board on Friday, setting sail again on Saturday, so normal service will be resumed Saturday evening.