Tag: Rhein

An Earthly Wine Melt

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Rhein and Mosel: two streams that each has travelled through major wine growing country before they meet here, at the “Deutsche Eck”, the German corner, in Koblenz.

I was up in a cable car and against the sun so my pictures don’t show the amazing spectacle that the blue-greyish water of the Rhein conflates with the brownish water of the Mosel (probably due to bad weather further to the west).

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Conflate

A Week of Threes

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The flooding during the last weeks have reminded me when we were in Düsseldorf on the banks of the river Rhine a few years ago. The banks were overflown then but the waters didn’t reach dangerous levels.

Last week was grandson visiting time and we went for an excursion with our bike, taking the train first and then cycling back. It’s not a great photo by any means but it was the beginning of a wonderful day.

We also went to the zoo in Heidelberg.

There were three elephants

and a large number of flamingoes – but these three were obliging to pose for Thursday Trios.

A German Corner

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The Deutsches Eck (“German Corner”) is the place where the Moselle river flows into the Rhine. In the photo on the bottom is the water of the Rhine, above it the water from the Moselle. The different colours (due to different sediments, different weather, etc.) show that it takes a while for the two rivers to coalesce.

And now lets mix Rhine wine and wine from the Moselle and see what happens…

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Coalesce

Meeting on the Rhine

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There is no coast closer than a 5 hours drive from here. But a one hour drive at the weekend got us to Mainz on Saturday, very close to the place of the confluence of rivers Rhine and Main (despite the spelling, they actually rhyme).

Besides seeing friends again (how we had missed that!) and running and walking and chatting, we saw ships going by. Sometimes two of them meeting in the middle of the river.

It quietened down towards evening, and then HE came along:

The HE 7 is the patrol boat of the Hesse river police, stationed in Wiesbaden.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: On the Coast

Worms’ view

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The town on the left side of the river Rhine is called Worms which should explain the title. It used to be just one bridge (the right one) but traffic between the state of Hesse and the Palatium had become so much that they added the left one a few years ago and made each a one way bridge. I’ve just read that the older bridge dating back to 1953 has to be replaced in the next few years as renovation is not possible. However, only the part that actually crosses the water needs to be replaced, the new bridge will fit seamlessly with the old parts on either end. A perspective to look forward to.

My Square Perspective no. 21 is linked to The Life of B.