Virtual cruise from Mainz along the river Main

I need to catch up!
Have been trying to do some bits of housework, and can only use my phone when its charging.
Rotten thing! It's a short charger, so it means I'm 'trapped' if I want to watch something lengthy.

I found it interesting that in the second video the walk goes where I had not virtually "walked" before, then suddenly, a bit after 18 minutes in, a sort of "Aha" moment as I recognised the location from having "walked" there previously in the first video, then off again to somewhere "new to me".

Thank you.

The buildings are beautiful, I noticed, in the first video, and wanted to see more of them.

Yes, I found it relaxing too.

The journey as it happened, continuous, unedited. Great.

Here is a link to another walk around Mainz, this time the video is with leaves on the trees.

Please note the Gutenberg Museum at around 8 minutes 40 seconds.

The large building just before that is Mainz Cathedral.

LINK > Walking in Mainz (59 minutes)

There... not their.

I watched the first one.
Enjoyed just taking in the sights, and how their was little pockets of activity, with market stalls.
I must have found it relaxing- I fell asleep!

In the linked video at 1 minute 20 seconds, if one stops the video, a typecase can be studied.

In printing with metal type, each individual piece of metal type is known as a sort.

Please note that in the typecase, the compartments are not all the same size.

This is because in each collection of sorts of metal type, known as a fount (note the spelling, differing from the font of computer fonts) there are more sorts of the letter 'e' than of the letter 't' than of the letter 'a' and so on.

With computer fonts, one gets one of each sort, because as many as one needs can be copied electronically, but with metal type the number in each fount varies depending upon which letter it is.

The letters used more often in text not only have a larger compartment in the typecase, but the compartment tends to be nearer to the centre of the typecase.

LINK > Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (2 minutes 29 seconds)

Mainz is the city where Johannes Gutenberg printed in the mid 1400s.

Today there is the famous Gutenberg Museum in Mainz.

Here are links to two videos that each include a demonstration using a reproduction printing press of the style used by Gutenberg.

LINK > Gutenberg's Press - A Demonstration (5 minutes 12 seconds)

LINK > How Gutenberg's Printing Machine Works @ Gutenberg Museum, Mainz (15 minutes 30 seconds)

LINK > Gutenberg Museum website, English

10 ish minutes in.
I feel as if I'm strolling along, taking in the sights.

Hope I can click back onto it now.

I shall.

Welcome to Mainz.

You have arrived at the railway station.

The cruise is due to depart along the river Main on Monday.

LINK Please enjoy a walk around Mainz