The Black Forest - Breisach and Titisee

Left Basle at 07:00 this morning to sail down the Rhine, actually most of the voyage was down the man made Rhine Canal running parallel to the real river. Seeing a variety of commercial barges and some competitive cruise lines on the voyage whilst descending around 50metres going through 4 locks. We arrived at Breisach just before 13:00. The town of Breisach (means breakwater) was established to take advantage of an island in the Rhine at that location, being identified as a key location on the early trade routes through Europe. The afternoon activity was a tour through the Black Forest to Titisee where they’re ins a glacial lake. Our guides were in traditional local dress, although neither originated from this area one coming from India and the other the Philippines. Various pictures taken on the coach ride including an old traditional design farm building still in use and a small church. Some farms built their own small churches on the farms as in winter they were not able to reach the local village church. Titisee is very much a tourist town, not quite Blackpool as no bingo and amusement arcades, these were replaced by cuckoo clock shops/museum with demonstrations on cuckoo clock construction and their history and importance to the local area. We were warned not to attempt a walk around the lake as the coach would leave before you would get all way around, this is probably because the actual frontage to the lake is mostly privately owned. We eventually found a small public park were we could sit and enjoy the sunshine (did I mention we got to 28centigrade here this afternoon) until it was time to return to the coach via the numerous souvenir shops to return to the ship. At 19:00 we departed Breisach for an overnight voyage to our next stop.Read more