Sunday 11^th September 2016

Weather continues to h=be hot and sunny. And we had 32° today.

After sailing overnight we docked briefly at Wertheim where we disembarked and boarded a bus for our tour of Miltenberg. The ship then sailed to Miltenberg to pick us up.

Miltenberg is lovely well preserved medieval city on the Main River and has an excellent array of half-timbered houses. The city also has a large Marktplatz (Market Place) and a stone bridge. The original was built to fit in with the medieval and was completed in 1900; however, it was blown up in the last months of WWI and was rebuilt in 1950. The town also had a number of Christmas decoration shops so more decorations were purchased.

We re-embarked at 1:30pm in Miltenberg and continued sailing down the Main River heading for Rüdesheim, which e expect to reach 7:00am tomorrow.

In the afternoon we watched a glass blowing demonstration before dinner.

After dinner we were entertained by Tomy Temerson who is one of only 5 Zither players in the world. A Zither is a strange looking stringed instrument which has a guitar type register plus an additional 38 strings similar to a small harp. It was very interesting.

 

Ceiling on old hotel

Hotel built like a Spanish Galeon

Half wooden house

Steps up to Bishops Palace

city well

Town Square

Stone Brudge

Going down in a lock