We are starting to get the knack of it. We follow a Dutch couple and get in and out of the locks with them. The technique is very simple but requires a well trimmed crew. So we are.
As we travel up the Main we see open rock faces like these.
It must have been old quarries.
Red sandstone rock
The colour is magnificent. Same colour as on the house we had in Sala. I am sure to remember that the colour was called Rothenfels.
Attire for cold early morning lock control. New fashion? Yes it is high fashion on Main.
another ruin, can't remember the name..
Wertheim and ruin
One more town which impressed us but we cannot remember why.
Lohr Marina
All along the beautiful and peaceful river Main there are towns and villages,some very beautiful, some with industries, some with old castles now in ruins overlooking and some just ordinary. It would be wonderful to be able to stop in at every place because the one place is more quaint than the next! Difficult to take photos which do justice to these places. Here we have Wertheim and a ruin.
Attire for cold early morning lock control. New fashion? Yes it is high fashion on Main.
Ruins along the way, the Kollenburg ruin...
another..
and this one is Rothenfels.
Leaving the last Schleuse for the day, having done Freudenberg, Faulbach, Eichel, Lengfurt and Rothenfels. (Rothenfels translates to Red Rock)
We have now done 16 of the 34 locks before we get to Bamberg, where the Main flows into the Main-Danube Canal. Arrived in the town of Lohr at about 4 pm. Had no idea of what to find but it turned out to have the most wonderful Altstadt. This is the Hauptstrasse.
Tudor style houses in Altstadt, Fränkische Fachwerkhäuser, in German. You find these houses in all the towns and just want to photograph all of them.
Germany won 1-0 over USA so the town was buzzing with happy people.
A street in Lohr.
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