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Aachen
Seagulls
08-Aug-1975
The start of our three day Cosmos holiday to the Rhine Valley. We crossed the channel to Ostende. The seagulls followed the boat right across the channel about 50 metres behind the ship.
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Koblenz
Ehrenbreitstein Castle By Night
08-Aug-1975
The fortress was in the past considered impregnable. On many occasions, the Electors of Trier, in times of war, brought the "holy Robe" here for safe keeping.
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Koblenz
Rhine Barge
09-Aug-1975
We stayed overnight at Koblenz and had about an hour to look around Koblenz in the morning. We found that there was a chair lift up to the castle courtyard and despite a few misgvings about her condition, Sue agreed to go up. This shows the view from about half way up.
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Koblenz
Rhine Barge
08-Aug-1975
The Rhine is still very much a working waterway, there being a multitude of bares of various sizes. This one is quite large and was travelling upstream. Taken from the fortress courtyard.
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Koblenz
Rhine Barge
08-Aug-1975
From earliest times, Koblenz has been of great military importance. In 9 BC a Roman castle was built, round which developed the floutishing Roman town of Confuentes. For a time in the middle ages, the town was the residential seat of the Electors of Trier, and was greatly enlarged. When it became Prussion, in 1815, it was strongly fortified and ranked as a very important garrison town.
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Koblenz
Mouth of the Mosel River
08-Aug-1975
From earliest times, Koblenz has been of great military importance. In 9 BC a Roman castle was built, round which developed the floutishing Roman town of Confuentes. For a time in the middle ages, the town was the residential seat of the Electors of Trier, and was greatly enlarged. When it became Prussion, in 1815, it was strongly fortified and ranked as a very important garrison town.
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Koblenz
Sue on the terrace of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress
09-Aug-1975
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Koblenz
The view of the Rhine upstream towards Schloß Stolzenfels
09-Aug-1975
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Koblenz
The Rhine downstream
09-Aug-1975
View downstream with the City of Koblenz on the rover bank to the left
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Koblenz
Deutsches Eck (592m)
09-Aug-1975
This monument to German unity, built in 1953 is at the junction of the Model and the Rhine
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Koblenz
The opposite back from the terrace of the castle, showing the fine buildings among the trees
09-Aug-1975
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Liége
Seagulls
08-Aug-1975
Seagulls against a background of the sea and the flagstaff at the back of the ship.
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