Hopefully the third time is charmed.....and this commentary will post. Slow internet can be very frustrating!
Our ship was running four hours late because of lock traffic so we were picked up outside of Nuremberg. Our first stop was the uncompleted Congress Hall. It is hard to grasp the size. The walls were only half completed when construction was halted with the start of WWII. The second picture shows what the completed structure was to look like. It was to have an unsupported glass roof that engineers today say would have collapsed.
As we had visited the Kaiserburg before, we decided to walk around
the Hauptmarkt with its Beautiful Fountain and Pfarrkirche Unsere Lieberman Frau. The city's double walls have round towers. Originally the towers were square but when discovered that cannonballs bounce off round walls, they added an outer round walls. We had some bratwurst and bought a lebkuchen gingerbread cookie to have later.
Yesterday the ship stopped in Bamburg. As I am having allergy &/or cold issues & we had been there before & it was raining, we decided to stay on the ship and cruise to Hassfurt where we would pick up the rest of the passengers.
We have been traveling on the Main-Danube Canal. Charlemagne first thought of the canal in the 8th century. The completed canal is 106 miles long, was completed in 1992 & took 32 years to build. In total, we will go through 68 locks in going from Budapest to Amsterdam. Starting at 380' above sea level, it goes over the Continental Divide at 1,332' above & ending at 5' below sea level in Amsterdam.
