This should
be entitled welcome to Worms, and I would be able to trot out all my carefully
prepared jokes on the subject. For example, we could discuss the dietary
preferences of the Holy Rome Emperor Charles V, and how following a bout of indigestion
in 1521, he issued an edict declaring Martin Luther a heretic, thus
precipitating the Reformation.
But we aren’t
at Worms: we set off this morning with high hopes and in pleasant weather,
taking a last atmospheric look at Heidelberg.
The run
back down to the Rhine was easy – the current seemed a little stronger, perhaps
because of the thundery rain we had last night. We skirted the great city of
Mannheim once again – the photo shows what at least some locals think about it:
Then it was
down river to Worms, but unfortunately the mooring close to the centre was
inaccessible, and we found ourselves in an industrial backwater at least 45
minutes’ walk from town. After lunch and some
reflection – and research online – we realized that the RAF/USAF had visited the town before us,
and there is really not a lot left to see. Perhaps just this tower, probably
the main gate at the end of the original bridge over the Rhine.
So we headed on downstream, meeting many enormous
barges, which set up most uncomfortable waves, finally arriving here at
Oppenheim in a thunder storm. Oppenheim is next to Nierstein, of Niersteiner
wine fame, and the hillsides are starting to be covered in vines.
By the way, people have commented positively on the
photos, and I should clarify that Diana takes credit for all of them.
Fortunately the memory card from her camera slots into my laptop, making the
task of inserting them in the blog far from technologically challenging.
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