Friday 18th October 2024 (day 35)
Today was a travelling day, and at that, quite a frustrating one. We planned to be on the move for about 3 hours or so, but due to road closures, traffic, misunderstandings and sat-nav issues, it has taken us about 6 hours and we are exhausted. For this reason, today’s blog will be brief.
We are staying next to the Dortmund-Ems Canal, at Riesenbeck. This is one of the major German canals which have the immense barges travelling along them. There are a couple moored-up alongside the stellplatz and we have seen others moving through. They always seem so heavily laden, almost within an inch of the gunwales.
The stellplatz is near a road bridge over the canal, which we walked across:
Across the road, there is a garden centre and like many in the UK, they sell a huge range of goods. We were particularly impressed with the industrial range of bottled beer, mostly for sale by the crate:
We later caught a glimpse of a Swiss river-cruise ship/barge, registered in Basel passing through.
It costs just 8€ to stay the night. Electric hook-up is available at a further 2€ for 2 KWh. No other services are provided, except an interesting view on the outskirts of a pleasant, small but unremarkable town.
Given our need to recuperate and take a break from travelling, we plan to stay here two nights, so if the weather is kind enough, tomorrow we plan a bike ride along the canal bank. TTFN. See you later.
"See-u-Later" 
That’s ace how the barges carry their own cars 😄
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Yes, they have a crane onboard and they just hoist it from the canal bank. We saw a car on the bank and when we looked again it was on the barge. Pity l missed it.😂
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😂 Oh such a shame! I think it’s brilliant, so convenient!
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