Virtual cruise from Mainz along the river Main

LINK > Walking in WÜRZBURG (33 minutes 59 seconds)

This video is from POPtravel, which did the non-viewpoint-jumping videos of Mainz.

I have only watched the first 4 minutes of this one so far - it is very realistic - I felt wary about walking in front of that car until I remembered a zebra crossing is there - very realistic, in many ways as if actually walking there - Argh! Mind that signpost!

Thank you.
I really enjoyed the Karlstadt one.
What beautiful streets and houses.

I,subscribed to the channel that came from on YouTube.
Comfy Excursions Excursions it's called.
They're the type I like these days.

What does subscribing mean in this context please?

The videos are posted to a channel.
There is usually a description of the type of content on that channel, and a "subsribe" button to click on, if you think the videos posted will be of interest.
The Karlstadt video is one of quite a few posted on the channel, which is named Comfy Excuursions, and features all similar walks around Germany.

Because I enjoyed it, I clicked the subscribe button so that I will have them all "to hand".
You can also click so that you are notified when that channel uploads a new video.

Oh, and depending on your settings, youtube will then recommend other channels that may interest you, too.

I seem to have that feature disabled, currently, but it's a good way of finding new content to watch.

Thank you.

I much prefer the videos where the viewpoint does not jump - the viewpoint doesn't jump if one is really there does it, so why in a video.

I like it when they include the 'bits between' as I feel it gives a better memory, more as if one were there, like going up the steps as in one of the ones at Mainz.

Yes, I like the ones filmed in a continuous way, without any jumps, too.

So far I have enjoyed the boat trip, the walk around the botanical gardens, and the other walking ones.

Oh, and inside the churches, too, where they have been included.
I do enjoy all the statues as well.

I always hope they will go all the way round the statue, but they seldom do.

If I were there I am sure I would walk all the way around the statue.

For completeness.

It's a shame we can't direct them.

"Right a bit! Left a bit... stop!"

LINK > Francsican Church, Würzburg (2 minutes 11 seconds)

Only 50 views thus far.

Absolutely beautiful.
It really is a lovely country; I wonder if I appreciated that when I visited, but I think not. (I was a teen)

As I have got older, when I see something artistic, like that stained glass, I am conscious that it did not always exist. One or more people designed it, gathered the pieces of glass and prepared the pieces and fitted them together somewhere (where?) and then it was put into place (how big a task was that, how many people worked together to do that, how long did it take?) and then I imagine them, having put it in place, standing back and looking at it, then coming back at the time when the sun would be behind it and the effect would be seen in its magnificence.

It is astounding when you consider all of that, isn't it?
Much like Stonehenge, and how that was somehow put together in that way, with such intricacy, to take account (presumably) the sun, and its setting, and so on.

And that someone thought to do it.

Not as if out of nowhere was a project brief of what was wanted as the result and they just constructed it.

It is in a way like modern art when someone says "Huh, I could have made that".

But the thing is that person didn't originate the idea to do it, they are in effect saying that, given a project brief to produce a pile of bricks and provided with a technical drawing, they could have gone and got some bricks and set them out in a pile.

Will this post lead to a discussion about modern art? In a new thread if you please!

But one post in this thread with a link to that new thread is both acceptable and desirable.

I've just been looking at some stained glass window videos from around the world.
Bolton, I think it was, had some marvellous windows in their cathedral/church (what is the difference between those, do you know?
Scotland, too. There was a video with lovely music, but the images were a bit blurry.

I know nothing at all about art, but interested to find out more, so another thread could be interesting.

LINK to a thread on a new topic > Huh, I could have made that!

Let’s hope der Goldene Delfin doesn’t run aground if water levels in the Main are affected in the same way as the Rhine this July.
(Bloomberg)
The flow of commodities to inland Europe is starting to buckle as water levels on the Rhine river continue to fall.
The lack of water is contributing to oil product supply problems in Switzerland and preventing at least two power plants in Germany from getting all the coal they need. What’s more, the continent’s sizzling summer temperatures are forecast to climb even higher in the coming week.

Fortunately for us, Der Goldene Delfin is moored at Würzburg at present, and today we are due to travel overland the journey of just over 40 miles to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. So if she does run aground, we are not in the middle of the river.

A rather splendid coach is being arranged to take us to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. by road.

The coach is named Der weiße Schwan.

LINK > Map showing the road journey

Der weiße Schwan has arrived in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

We can now go for a walk.

LINK > Walking in ROTHENBURG OB DER TAUBER (1 hour 22 minutes 59 seconds)

It is a POPtravel video.

I have watched the first 17 minutes.

Just about to watch it now, thank you.

Did you notice at just after 21 minutes in that the camera goes into a wide opening with a narrow vertical slot at the other end?

I think thatthat is so that an archer could shoot arrows at an attacker whilst the attacker would have a low chance of getting an arrow into the slot.

Arrow slits
An arrowslit is a thin vertical aperture in a fortification through which an archer can launch arrows. The interior walls behind an arrow loop are often cut away at an oblique angle so that the archer has a wide field of view and field of fire. Arrow slits come in a remarkable variety

Ah yes, I have watched as far as the arrow slits. (Thanks Maw)

I'm sorry, it's slow going tonight, but I've just been out with my boy, (holding my hand and helping me) and put some flowers on my mums bench.

No link available just this for reference