Larvatus Prodeo

In the last days of September 2008 three of my siblings and I plus partners enjoyed a family reunion which began with a boat cruise down the Rhine from Basel to Amsterdam. In June I posted a collection of photos on bicycles in Amsterdam. At the time I promised to do a post on our trip through the Rhine Gorge, famous for it’s castles. I thought that to do it now might make a good break from all the super serious stuff on climate change and similar topics. It might even distract BilB from thinking about power supply infrastructure.

There were four cameras at work and I do believe we captured every last castle. In January this year I had fun collating, editing and organising the photos from the trip while recovering from a small operation. The Rhine Gorge sequence was surprisingly difficult, partly because the cameras were all on wildly different time settings. Luckily one was on local time. Also you had to remember which side of the river some of the less memorable shots were from. It made all the difference as to whether you were coming or going. There were 196 images in all. The selection I’m posting here has 36 images and has all the castles in sequence going down the river.

I’m a bit concerned that it makes a long post, but if I just include the castles you get the wrong idea about the trip. There were probably as many churches as castles and both need to be put in a bit of context.

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