Over the past 18 hours we have travelled along the Main-Dabube Canal, which was completed in 1992, creating a continuous waterway 2,200 miles long passing through 15 countries and linking hundreds of inland ports. The canal is 106 miles long, running from Kelheim on the Danube to bam berg on the Main River. It's 16 stair-step locks rise to a watershed 1,332 feet above sea level, the highest point on any European waterway. I point this out as through the night we entered and departed several long, narrow locks with plenty of contact with lock walls, making sleeping a tenuous activity separated by short periods of quiet! At sun-up we started the decline, some locks gently lowering us 80 feet at a time. One would hardly know that this is an artificial waterway. Great care has been taken to see that the canal blends harmoniously with the beautiful landscapes through which it passes. While travelling through this canal this morning a professor from a local university, boarded the Bragi and presented an overview of the European Union. When completed, she departed the Bragi, passed her bicycle and lecture notes on to a Viking Riverboat heading in the opposite direction for a ride back through the locks to her home.
We are about to disembark for a shore excursion to Nuremburg...more sightseeing!
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