FollowYesterday’s boat trip was very good, so we decided to do another one. This one goes about 7 miles downstream to a memorial called Valhalla.
The scale and grandeur of this boat has to be seen to be believed.
So here is Valhalla. It’s basically a monument to German national insecurity. What happened was that Napoléon beat the Germans by turning one half of the country against the other half.
The country was divided and basically ruined, so Crown Prince Ludwig decided that a shrine to remind the Germanic people of their common heritage would be a good idea. Valhalla was therefore built, and it houses busts of Germanic notables – writers, painters and the like. You didn’t actually have to be German to be included – our own Alfred the Great is in there for instance.
Anyhow it’s a lovely day, so we stayed on the boat (very good drinks service) rather than climbing the 350 steps up to the absurd German folly.
There are some lovely villages along the river.
Here’s a houseboat made from a railway carriage.
Back at Regensburg, I have another bash at getting a picture of the cathedral.
Not a great photo really. This photogenic church building was easier and just next door.
