Virtual cruise from Mainz along the river Main

I shall have a watch now (have had my neighbour in! so not had a chance yet)

LINK > Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Germany. Bayern.Deutschland. 27.06.2022 (54 minutes 11 seconds)

I have not watched it all.

LINK > There is a good sequence starting here

That is very good, thank you.

LINK > Best of OnePlus Piano in Rothenburg ob der Tauber Germany (5 minutes 45 seconds)

Mine is a jumping around one.
Just to fill in a few details about Rothenburg, though, and only a few minutes long.

youtu.be/ty2nNmn4NqU

The link in the previous post is to a video of 3 minutes 11 seconds.

LINK > Rothenburg ob der Tauber Musical Show

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Rothenburg is a beautified old town. Enjoy your visit.

We are still in Rothenburg, looking around to find anything else of interest.

Tommy Cooper..
"I was swimming along underwater, and I saw a man, dressed in a suit, with a bowler hat on, walking along the seabed"
I held up a piece of paper which said
"What are you doing there"?
And he held up one that said
"I'm drowning".

Anyway, I'm back

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Bump.

Oh no!

Better throw them one of these?

Bump.

No link available just this for reference

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.

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

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.

Just about to watch it now, thank you.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.