AnhaltER1960

Please name river and city. The first to name both gets the next picture - Here is a piece of medieval political incorrectness.

We are looking at the river Rur in Monschau, Eifel hills.

The rivers in question within those two hours are Rhine, Moselle and probably (though I have never driven that myself) Maas or Saar

From the architecture and the landscape I would place this into the "Rheinisches Schiefergebirge" (Rhenish Shist Upland). So you can surely reach the Rhine and the Moselle. A possible third river depends on where exactly you are. But reading "Hotel Stern" helps, though there are hundreds of hotels with that name in Germany. But only one with their private bridge crossing the river ***. So we are in (name will be released at 1600 German time, if not answered before) in the beautiful ***** hills.

22 hours ago, Canal archive said:

Wild card to keep us going fairly straight forward, estuary of which rivers then you’ll know the Country.

 

The sailing boat in the front says "FRA" on its sail, so I take a guess, France. The choice of estuaries in France would be limited, as the Rhone has a delta. So I take a second guess, off Honfleur, Seine.

On 3/12/2021 at 12:03 AM, jpalbny said:

 

The tiny town is called Hals and the "castle" is Burgruine Hals. We did this hike in 2016. The town is less than 2km upstream from the confluence.

 

The vantage point is from near the Filialkirche St. Achatius. The bridge is (I think) Landdichterstraße. I don't have the exact same view in my pics but close enough to recognize where it was taken. That was a nice hike.

 

Another angle and close-up of the ruins. 

 

Thank you, now I cam follow. I just did not look enough upstream along the Ilz.

Sorry, doubleposting. Please delete my post #3126.

To the actual pic. There was a hint " a river that joins two others " given, thus Passau is a valid bet. But I cannot place that castle into Passau. After all, we see a rainbow, so we look northward, maybe northeast or east (northwest, I the pic was taken early in the day). I am still in searching mode.

Those sort of signs seem to be used in the austrian federal state of Niederösterreich. So that would narrow it down to Danube river roughly somewhere between Linz and the hungarian border. But of course that still did not name a city.

Indeed, there is a centuries old vine "tree" listed as a natural monument in the city of **** at the foot of a rock, which carries a baroque *****.

Those sort of signs seem to be used in the austrian federal state of Niederösterreich. So that would narrow it down to Danube river roughly somewhere between Linz and the hungarian border. But of course that still did not name a city.

8 minutes ago, vada_9 said:

Not so small, I would say

And not Austria any more .....

1 hour ago, AnhaltER1960 said:

France. And I can read "Mahler", which points to Institue Simone Mahler, a nationwide chain of beauty salons. But before browsing all their branches, looking for that statue might be more straight forward.

Sorry to quote myself. But where did I write Paris ? 🙂 France is more than Paris, from what Ive learnt.

France. And I can read "Mahler", which points to Institue Simone Mahler, a nationwide chain of beauty salons. But before browsing all their branches, looking for that statue might be more straight forward.

3 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

 

At least they make nice wine at each of those destinations - though the table wine in Porto is much cheaper!

 

 

Even a Bordeaux claret is cheaper than a lawyer. 🙂

People in Saxony, Eastern Germany, speak a (as almost any other Germans say) funny dialect. They soften hard consonants like "P" to "B", "T" to "D", "K" to "G" and speak rather through the nose than mouth. Anyway, a couple of years ago a saxon woman booked a flight to Porto in a travel agency. The clerk, not accustumed to saxon dialect, understood Bordeaux (that sounds really similar), asking to reconfirm Bordeaux you want, yes, Porto (that sounded still veeery similar), and booked the ticket to Bordeaux. The case went to court, because the woman refused to pay, but had to.in the end. Now standard teaching material for law students as an example of a contract offer by one party and accepting by the other party.

5 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

Ha, good eye on the filename, but it's just the name of the cruise / trip that the photo comes from. I had to post from my phone because I'm at work. Usually I change the name and remove the captions and location data before posting, but can't do that on the phone.

 

Still, it's not in either of the cities that appear in the filename.

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True, it needed a second step. But the filename gave away, in which part of your blog to take a further look. And, yes, you took quite a detour instead of the direct way. Was the first time btw., that the filename gave a clue.

Easy indeed..... you should have renamed the pic before uploading here. So you gave a great clue 🙂

Da simmer dabei! Dat is prima! Viva Colonia!

Monument with a 5-end star and an eternal flame. Looks like Red Army to me. Somewhere east of the iron curtain. Just didnt find, where.

4 hours ago, Renmar said:

That is correct, we were there in 2012 on an excursion from a Baltic cruise. Excursions are also offered going to Berlin when on an Elbe river cruise.

Here is the complete picture we took.

 

Your turn @ljandgb.

 

Theo

In fact, most Elbe cruise programmes start or end in Berlin, reaching the Elbe either by ship on a canal or by bus. Thank you for bringing back some memories to the city, where I lived in the 80ies, seeing the wall coming down.

St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee - of course. The late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl used to spend the family summer holidays there year after year.  Contrast to some left-wingers, called the "Tuscany-fraction", guess, where they holidayed ...

5 minutes ago, acwmom said:

 

You're up next, AnhaltER1960.

Another photo finish ..... As I wrote, @Renmar please take over, I am off to bed.

6 minutes ago, Renmar said:

You beat me while I was typing. 

 

Theo

Two minutes it says on my screen ... sorry for that.  If I am correct, I pass the baton to you ... late here anyway.

Ponte Pietra, Verona, excursion from a Po river cruise.

Sailing the Elbe downstream from Magdeburg

It is not easier sailing downstream from Magdeburg in dry years. There are some very shallow or narrow parts in and downstream from Magdeburg. Plenty of sediment and slow flux, there are only 43 m difference between Magdeburg and sea level, on more than 300 km.

Unlike Czechoslowakia, East Germany did not much to boost sailing the Elbe. And at the parts, where the Elbe was innergerman border, of course nothing happened at all. There is an alternative between Magdeburg and Hamburg, using the Mittelland canal and the Elbe-Side-Canal. Even shorter than the river, fright traffic usually uses that (also Croisieurope on some tours, if I remember correctly), thus there is no pressure from freighters to do dredging in the Elbe.

So, sailing the Elbe downstream from Magdeburg is even riskier than upstream. Yes, sure, cities like Wittenberg and Dresden are more attractive (or at least marketable) than Magdeburg or Hitzacker.

Sailing in Summer

Apparently the controllers or even the insurers of CroisiEurope learnt the same lessons than Viking from the disastrous years 2018/2019. Croisi sailed in summer 2019, well they tried to ... Ten, fifteen years ago it was an exception that the Elbe was not navigable for low water, now that becomes more and more regular, and this hits even the cruiseships, which were designed for low draft (only 80 to 90 centimeters).

Maybe too early to call, but a longer lasting trend, that the whole region getting less rainfall, sounds like some greeting from climate change.

March, April and early May had been a safe bet even in dry years.