We have been travelling on the Danube River until two days ago when we joined the Danube-Main Canal. We have now left the Canal and are travelling on the Main River on our way to the Rhine. The canal was completed in the early 1990’s and allows shipping starting in the Black Sea all the way to the North Sea. We pass low barges all day long and have learned that they contain everything from trucks to grains. Our arrival times are all tentative depending on the waits at the locks. All the locks on the rivers are free but there is a charge for canal locks. It costs 2200 Euros for a one-way trip. We were moving up in the locks until around Nuremberg and are now moving down dropping sometimes by as much as 50 feet.
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