Posted in Awesome Fotos, Blogging Inspiration, Buildings, History and Places, Out of Town, Photography, Travel, tagged country photos, Danube, Germany, nature, Photo, photography, reflections, Rhine, river boat cruise, River view, rivers, Travel, Vineyard on October 21, 2015| 13 Comments »
This is one of my favorite photos taken as we drifted along. I have forgotten where we were. Was it the Rhine or the Danube? I do remember those are vineyards at the top of the shot. It seems Germany is becoming known for its wines.
It was a foggy morning in a sleeping city.
Posted in Blogging Inspiration, Camera-Walking, Critters, Humor, Out of Town, People, Photography, Travel, View Points, tagged Camera Walking, Dogs, Germans, Homes, Houseboats, humor, Photo, photography, riverboat living, rivers, sayings, Travel, View Point on October 17, 2015| 9 Comments »
We walked along the river and noticed rusty old tubs that looked as though they had been used for commerce in their better days. Upon closer look I noticed lace curtains in the windows and potted plants along the decks. There were mailboxes ashore too and places for garbage pickup.
Then I thought I had the perfect shot of a big old white-faced dog on one of those boats.
He was looking at us through the center of a life preserver ring.
But, by the time my camera was positioned, the big guy moved aside and began barking.
He did not want to have his picture taken and did not approve of foreigners.
As the Germans say,
That pup was definitely complaining, German style, but we meant him no harm.
Posted in Buildings, History and Places, Memories, Out of Town, Photography, Travel, Where to Go, tagged barbershop quartet, Doris Day, drifting downriver, Europe, Germany, Moonlight Bay, old song, photography, river locks, Riverboat cruise, rivers, sailing, storybook villages, Travel, view points on October 15, 2015| 19 Comments »
We were drifting along a river and the journey was quiet and smooth (if you don’t count the Locks the first night).
There is something surreal and other-worldly about sailing down a river past story book villages.
I was expecting to see the worn out industrial sides of German towns like from a bus or a train in the U.S. But we must have passed those city undersides at night because the views were of the never-to-be-forgotten other-worldly variety.
There was a song written in 1912 entitled “Moonlight Bay” often sung in a Barbershop Quartet style. It was one of a number of early 20th century songs used as titles for musical films made by Doris Day in the late 1940s and 50s.
The Chorus of that song kept going through my head as we made our way:
We were sailing along
On Moonlight Bay
We could hear the voices ringing
They seemed to say:
“You have stolen her heart”
“Now don’t go ‘way!”
As we sang Love’s Old Sweet Song
On Moonlight Bay
Virginia Views 