Cochem to Berncastel-Kues

We had spent the night moored in Cochem. The place where we were moored had no mobile signal, and the boat’s WiFi was useless.

We had originally planned to do an excursion on the Landtrain, which takes the passengers around Cochem, but decided last night that it wasn’t worth doing as we had walked around much of the town already. Instead, we walked into town ourselves and just strolled around. We stopped for a coffee at the riverside, then shopped in a store we visited yesterday. This store sells various liquers, and we were particularly impressed by the peach flavour we had sampled yesterday. We purchased a bottle to take home, then made our way back to the boat.

At midday, the boat threw its moorings and continued its passage upriver. We had a glorious afternoon sitting on the sun deck watching the picture postcard villages float by, and traversing a number of locks that raised us up bit by bit.

Late in the afternoon, we returned to our cabin. I finally cracked the technology problems that had been troubling me. They were partly caused by the dreadful WiFi in the lower part of the river (caused by the steep-sided surrounding hills. I had also been logged out of my Google account without my knowledge, and it took a while to realise this and log back into the system.

We met up in the bar for a briefing on Berncastel-Kues, where we would be tomorrow, then went down to dinner. Di chose a nice piece of cod, while I selected Nasi Goreng (with duck breast on top).

Back in the lounge, after dinner, we grabbed a remote signal box so that we could participate in the quiz. The questions were all multiple-choice, and to answer, you just pressed the corresponding button on the remote device. It was quite good fun, but we didn’t do particularly well.

During the quiz, we arrive at the dock in Bernkastel-Kues. I nipped up on deck to get some photos of the town at night. We then sat chatting until gone eleven, when we all headed off to bed.