Trip Day 16 - more Regensburg

Friday November 29

OMG, I totally forgot to wish all my USA friends (and family of course) a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend yesterday. When you are traveling you really even forget what weekday it is. For a short moment we passengers on the ship (all from the USA) were reminded of the Holiday because we had turkey for dinner with the traditional sides. 

The ship was still floating along. At 9 am a glass blower gave us a demonstration. I really enjoyed this a lot. His name is Karl Ittig Glass-House-Wertheim and he is a character. His grandson was helping him.

He told a lot of stories and made us laugh.

He must be quite famous in the world of glass blowers because he was invited by Chihuly to America and he gives classes even there. 

He told us that in the USA he learned that the drinking glasses we call in Germany “Schnappsglass” was called “shot glass”. The reason for that is that in the "Wild West in the good ol’ times” a glass of whiskey (or moonshine?) cost the same as a bullet of a shotgun. The gold seekers and/or cowboys would order and pay with a bullet. The bar owner would then go next day and exchange the bullets for money. 

Karl explained that his glass with the bullet is best used with the German Jägermeister, an herb liqueur which is good for your tummy if you ate too much, and he invited one of our fellow travelers to try it.

Afterwards we could go with a second tour to the cuckoo clock shop for somekind of lecture. James and I had missed the earlier one. On the way I told the new friends we were walking with how I got the young girl scouts in my troop to enjoy walking to the cafeteria when we were camping. Jill did a VIDEO and shared it with me.

The lecture about the clocks was quite interesting. Amazing the different styles there are.

Lunch was at 1 pm and the MS River Adagio set sail to our next and last town to visit.

Cabbage Rolls! I always tried to get the "local" things.

Incredible the presentation of every dessert. 

At 2:30 pm we had a Stollen Making Demo with chefs from the ship. We got the recipe ... but I don't need it being from Germany.

At 4 pm was a lecture on the Rhein-Main-Canal which "fixes the watershed" between the Danube and the Rhein to continue the waterway from the North Sea/Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. Esther gave a very informative lecture. 

Of course once in a while one has to have a look outside. 

That "golden point" is the Liberation Hall in Kehlheim.

It was commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in the War of 1813-1815. (picture from Wikipedia)

Dinner was at 7 pm and ... oh yes ... if I remember right this was Sauerbraten mit Kartoffelklößen. 

Almost forgot to take a picture of Dennis, Barbara and Rich. We ate with them several meals and had such a good time, rich conversations and fun chats. Too bad they don't live around the corner. 

And then there was the MS River Adagio Crew Show. Yes, they were pretty hilarious. Such hardworking people to give us a good time.

And then we fell into bed. We have to be fit for tomorrow. It's our last day on this trip. Night, night.