The cruise starts at 9 am and will get me to Bingen at 1
pm. I’m all excited, as evident from
these pictures:
At 10 am I am falling asleep. How many quaint villages and
castles can one get excited about? Some
of the churches look like they were all made from the identical model set. At 10:20 I abandon Ship in St Goar. Just in time: about 100 English-speaking kids
get on board.
The road signs say that Bingen is 28 km away. How could the
boat possibly take 2.5 hours to get there?
I start cycling. For an hour,
when I reach Bacharach, the boat falls more and more behind as the river
narrows and becomes difficult to navigate.
Pictures of the Lorelei and my previous boat:
I reach Bacharach at 11:30 and decide to go for lunch. After a while I find a place with outside sitting that’s not exposed to the sun (Somehow sunshine and polluted air don’t mix; my skin starts itching). Lunch is yummy and not expensive. While the restaurant outside sitting area was deserted when I arrived, it is occupied to the last seat with a part of a bus load of tourists only 5 minutes later. Well, fortunately not occupied; my table is only occupied by me; in German it is reasonably common that people just sit down at ‘your’ table when everything is occupied.
Bacharach has a train station and I will try to get to
Bingen (or Frankfurt directly) by train. Try to is right. I wait ½ hour for the train that takes 15
minutes to get me to Bingen. There I wait
another whole hour for a train that takes one hour to take me to Niederrad,
where in turn I wait 15 minutes for the train that takes 10 minutes to take me to
the final train station.
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