We docked about 6:00am in Nuremberg Port. We had breakfast
before the coach for our bus tour around Nuremberg. We saw a lot of places
related to the Nazi war rallies & subsequent trials.
We drove past the
fortifications around the old city seeing the old towers & moat which is no
longer in use. From here we drove up to the Imperial Castle which was under
refurbishment so we couldn’t go inside.
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| Fortification around the Old Town |
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| The Imperial Castle |
We were then dropped off in the Old Town where we had free
time to wander for a couple of hours. The clock on Our Lady’s Church had a
small glockenspiel that went off at 12:00 noon. We wandered around & looked
at the markets & old bridges before heading back to the bus stop to go back
to the ship for lunch at 1:30.
At the Port Talk this evening the Captain announced that we
were unable to travel on the Emerald Star any further than Regensberg. The Danube
River was too low for us & any other ships to proceed. We would be spending
an extra night in Regensberg before being bussed to Linz in Austria. We would
still stop at Passau for our walking tour & lunch before boarding the bus
once again at 3:30 for our destination.
Today we travelled through the 3 highest locks of the
Main-Danube Canal – the highest being 24.7m. As soon as dinner finished we all
assembled on the forward sun deck for the High Lock Celebration. It was
certainly a surreal event.
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| High Lock Celebration |
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