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| Hafen Braunschweig. |
Very hot and sunny again. We set
off at 10.15 am leaving the Snails to follow on in their own time. At KP215 a
loaded tanker Linda B went past in the opposite direction. It was German
registered, but had a Polish car on the stern cabin.
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| Meinholz railway bridge - trains run across the top |
Not long after that we
went past a wharf that had containers, scrap and great-heaped piles of coal.
Past a big shopping centre with a huge IKEA sign at KP221. An old tanker boat
went past called Yggrrasil, registered at Desau with a German flag, followed by
three cruisers – two Dutchmen and a German. It was getting hotter and hotter.
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| Junction with the Elbe-Seiten canal built so boats could travel to and from Hamburg without going through East Germany |
A
loaded Dutch boat called Meandro (84m x 9m 1,600 tonnes) registered at
Maasbracht went past at KP 231. We moored at KP233.5 on the junction with the
Elbe-Seiten canal on the short bit reserved for us behind an empty Dutch
commercial called Janny from Zutphen.
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| Moored in the corner at Edesbuttel |
It was 1.20 pm. A young deck hand came to
say hello, he was from the Janny and told us he was home alone, left to look
after the boats whilst the skipper and his wife had gone on a five-week holiday
to Thailand.
Had lunch then gave Mike a hand to unload the bike off the roof
and he went to get the car. When he returned we went shopping at Real at Gifhorn,
just north of the mooring.
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| Passing tankership Michael - well, he had to have a photo of that one, didn't he! |
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