We are off to join the Viking river ship Einear. We call an Uber who charges us the 13 Euro to the dock that’s on our bit of paper and it’s about as far as the train station so we all happy. We make our way, baggage in tow, to the quay but the ship isn’t there. There is a little old lady with an old bright pink carry on trundle bag who accosts us, speaking German (we think). She seems pretty angry and despite us telling her numerous times we cant understand she continues. “Did you pay?, Did you pay” she asks. Yes we said we are on a cruise but the ship isn’t here. She grabs my phone where I have the details on and babbles some more. She gives my phone back and we call the ship number and it appears they changed it but we didnt get the memo. We retrace our steps and pay another 13 euro for an Uber and go back over the river to the ship. Little old angry lady and pink bag last seen at the bus stop by the quay. We were half expecting her to turn up.
Settled into our cabin, which is all good. The checking out of cruise companions. The usual stuff and all is well with the world. We have dinner in the causal lounge and the lady next to us laughs exactly like Janice from friends and its hilarious but we cant laugh out loud, and sniggering is rude so we try and make stimulating conversion whilst trying to block it out. behave.
I am going fast because that we yesterday and i am on today. Breakfast, then a trip to the Black Forest. Lovely scenery. Interesting field’s. Big barns that are also houses. Cows on one side, people on the other and hay up the top.
We stop and see cuckoo clocks. A walk in the forest, past a bubbling brook ( we have lots of that at home), we see a big viaduct that the allied forces worked hard to bomb but never succeeded and then the Germans blew it up when they were retreating so they couldn’t be followed. Pass more pretty fields. They have flower field’s on the verges of farm land where there is an honesty box and you just go and pick your own.
Next stop
Colmar
Pinch me.
It’s fairytale pretty. It has colourful houses, and bendy roofs. It has flower boxes and streams running through it. It has obligatory churches with giant steeples.
It has these cute little signs hanging in the street which used to represent what the shop was. It’s a cloudy day so the sky wont reflect back the light I need to make my photos pop, but I really hope you get the picture.
Pinch Me.
