Today we visited Nuremberg and opted to do the WW2 tour. We visited the National Congress built for Hitler, to his plans ( based on the Coloseum in Rome- but bigger) to hold the Nazi party rallies. It has a granite exterior with brick for most of the thickness of the walls. It was never finished or used for its intended purpose because war came first. It was built to hold 50,000 Nazis. Then we went to the remains of the Zeppelinfield where the rallies of up to 100,000 people gathered to listen to Hitler speak. Our German guide Alexander was vey passionate about how Germans feel about what happened in the past. It must have been a terrible time for everyone.
Then we went into the old city centre and looked around market, bought a few trinkets and ate Lebkuchen ( gingerbread), more like a spiced biscuit.
We sailed in the afternoon and went through massive locks that took us up to the highest point in the river. We sailed into what looked like a big garage, the door closed behind and started to fill with water.It was amazing how deep the lock was and how fast it filled. When you get to the top it is like to are sitting up on top of the trees as you look down to the river we have just come from. At 6.30 we sailed past the Continental Divide and celebrated with blue bubbles! There are lots of low bridges to go under and it was funny to see the wheelhouse disappear down and the Capatin pop his head up through a hatch to steer the bo
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