I am in Mainz now. I am going to Koblenz today. .
When I shave my jaw slowly, I gradually wake up.
The electric type shaver is bulky and heavy, so I do not bring it for travel.
If the sharpness of the razor gets worse, I will buy a new one at the supermarket.
I slowly pack up luggage while drinking while eating bread, apples, banana, ham, salami sausage and milk little by little in the tent.
I put various small items used in travel on small bags depending on the purpose to use.
I always return the used things to the original small bags each time. That is my custom.
When I need it, I can quickly retrieve what I need from inside a lot of small bags.
Now I'm storing many small bags in big bags.
When that is over I will fold the tent small and leave the campground.
Mr Young man seems to go to the Netherlands, but he was still asleep.
It looks like a Swiss ship going up the river.
The island that is visible behind is the island called Marianneau.
The pleasure boat is going up the river.
By the way, it is about the castle, but I can not see the castle if I run along the side of the riverside castle like this.
I passed the river much earlier than planned.
Castles are supposed to be on the mountain on the left side of the river now running, but I can not see it.
I am worried that the weight supported by the back wheel is too heavy.
Such a landscape ... It is good.
The rain started falling apart.
Until a large boat could sail, the construction was repeated and the width of the river was expanded.
Currently the width of the river is about 130 meters
The water depth is about 20 to 30 m.
The sightseeing ship "Loreley" descends the river at the speed of 16 km / h, which is about the same speed as the bicycle.
In 1226 the Basel Mitterrele bridge was built.
This Mitterrele bridge was the most downstream bridge in the Rhine until a wooden bridge was hung on Strasbourg in 1388.
There was no bridge in the River Rhine for a long time.
So the story of the castle. The distance between Ruedesheim and Koblenz is 60 km, between which there are 25 castles.
The reason is that many people and things passed through this area.
It is not difficult to make the idea of taking money from a ship passing through the Rhine.
There are various ways to take as a toll tax, to threaten it and to take it.
By the way, movement of people and things is not limited to flow along the river. There was also a movement perpendicular to the river.
The important point in here is that there was no bridge in the Rhine. It is natural for people to think that they want to cross a narrow narrow river.
A good place to create a facility that collects taxes to cross the river is a narrow place of the river.
Another purpose of the owner wanted to stop the flow of people from the east to the west which has been constantly occurring.
In my opinion, maybe the castle had the purpose of immigration office as well.
I did not know how the truth was, only the doubts remained.
The official name is Burg Neukatzenelnbogen, and the cat castle is the so-called "katz (meaning of cat)" within it.
I could understand the words .... I could understand the words they are talking about.
The conversation could be clearly understood ...
It was a group of Japanese people.
The name of the ship is "Loreley". Length 68 m
German ・ Rhein River Cruising popular section is Rudesheim ⇒ Bingen ⇒ Sankt Goar (1 hour 40 minutes required)
It is said that the speed of a cruise ship traveling toward the downstream is 16 km / h, so it can be thought that the speed of river flow is never faster than 16 km / h.
Normal cargo ships and tankers sail at 15 to 16 knots.
The average speed of a typical sailing merchant ship is said to be 5-6 knots.
1 knot is 1.852 km / h.
Trying the calculation
The speed of the sailing boat is about 10 km.
The speed is more slow in the inland
On the other hand, there is a person who calculated the speed of flow.This is PDF.。 Quotation ...This is PDF. Quotation ... Rhine cruise departs from Mainz or departs from Koblenz. Cruising goes while stopping at several berths on the way.
I used a ship of the next schedule.
I left Mainz 8: 45 and arrived at Koblenz 14:10.
The scheduled boarding time was 5 hours and 25 minutes but it was a sightseeing season and it was delayed considerably due to congestion on the way.
On the other hand, it takes 8 hours and 30 minutes to go up the river from Koblenz.
I remembered "Running water calculated" that I learned at elementary school.
Calculating the cruising distance on the assumption of 84 km, the speed of the ship is 13 km / h and the flow of the river is 3 km / h, but the flow seems to be faster than 3 km / h. How about this?
If the flow velocity is 3 km / h and the sailing boat is about 10 km / h, the sailing ship may be able to climb Lorelei.
There is another record of the calculation of the speed of flow.
From this page
Distance is 65 km
Ruedesheim----Koblenz
Down time ... 155 minutes, Climbing time ... 295 minutes
The result of calculation ⇒
Ship speed ・ ・ ・ 19 km, speed of flow ・ ・ ・ 6 km
It was a result.
A train carrying pipes is running on the other side of the river.
Let's run along with the ship by bicycle to see how fast it is.
I will try to run side by side with a yellow ship that is sailing towards the downstream.
The ship is faster than I am.
I will run the side of the campground.
I think so,but・・・.
And I have to run around quite far.
The ship has gone far ahead of me .
I can not catch up with her any longer.
I have no more energy left to chase the ship.
Goodbye, Bee ship.
When I got to Koblenz, the ship had already disappeared to the far far side.
I bought food and soap at Riddle of Koblenz.
As I washed my clothes everyday, the three small soaps I brought from the hotel were too small to use until the end of the trip.
Deutsches Eck means Germany's horn. It is a place where the Rhine and the Moselle cross.
By the way,What is this statue.
The statue of the first German emperor Wilhelm I who is riding a horse.
A huge rain cloud approaches.
I want to arrive at the campsite before it starts to rain.
With the hurry, I finished the reception and when the setting of the tent is over,
The rain came down quickly. Then, it stopped quickly.
Since I came by bicycle, I have a few ideas that I should go up to the castle by bicycle, but I wanted to get on the ropeway strongly.
A young man at the ticket office of the ropeway could speak Japanese.
"Anatawa, Nancydeska (How old are you?)" He asked.
I am always an honest person. I answered honestly.
He said "Soudesca, Senior Waribiquaka de Kimasune (you can ride at senior discount)". The ticket price after I had a discount was 9 euros.
15.5 euros. it was expensive. The sanitary facilities were amazing.
The weather was sunny. Mileage 101 km