Thursday, April 30, 2020

CRUISING THE RHINE RIVER


Part 6 of the series on Retracing Their Footsteps 

Once in Amsterdam, my Grandparents [Charles and Theresa Sherlock]  boarded a steamship for a river tour down the Rhine River.  They weren't on a river cruise like the ones offered by Viking and others these days.  Theirs was more of a "hop on, hop off" boat ride. 

While my Grandparents began their trip down the Rhine River in Amsterdam, that’s where we ended our river cruise.  



In 2015, my brother, his wife, my husband and I took a Viking Cruise, beginning in Basel, Switzerland and ending in Amsterdam. We made stops in Breisach, Germany [for the Black Forest]; Colmar, France; Strasbourg, France;Heidelberg, Germany; Rudesheim, Germany; Koblenz, Germany; Cologne, Germany; Kinderdijk, Netherlands and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Charlie and Theresa stopped for lunch in the town of Elten, Germany, which was a part of the Netherlands from 1949 -1963.  Our stop before Amsterdam on our 2015 Rhine River cruise was at Kinderdijk, which is 1 hour and 15 minutes north and west of Elten.
  






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