Have you ever been on a cruise? 🛳️

@Piper [quote] just a day one on the Rhine when I was a kid[/quote] I did one of those when I was 15, on a School Exchange trip to Frankfurt. It was the same Summer the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia (as it then was)

@ArtieKat 1968? We lived near Frankfort then, and often visited there. The Rhine cruises were really lovely, I thought.

@Piper That's it. We went up as far as the Lorelei if I remember correctly.

@ArtieKat We must have too, since I vaguely remember the legend of that rock. :)

@Piper was your father based at Wiesbaden, by any chance?

@ArtieKat Yes, although it seems like the actual base was more between Wiesbaden and Mainz. We lived in Mainz for over year, before moving to base housing in Wiesbaden. My dad was in the Air Force, and was stationed in Germany twice.

@Piper I understand. My abiding memory of Mainz is the train station at about 5am. We had left Liverpool at about 10am the previous day: train to London, on to Dover, ferry to Ostend and then another train to Mainz, where we had to wait for a local service through to Frankfurt. You've brought back vivid memories!

@ArtieKat Good memories, I hope. I have many great ones of the 7 years we lived in Germany, and traveled around Europe...and often on trains.

You were just a little older than I was when we moved back to the states, when you made memories there.