He did not disappear he is alive and well and playing in Germany in a time warp called the 80’s, there was a poster for Lionel Richie also……hello is it me your looking for…..
Yours truly holding the leg of the donkey in the famous story.
Kiel Canal, Brunsbuttel locks by night.
Zeppelin having had less success with floating airships turned their attention to more down to earth or earth moving things.
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I managed to get ashore in Bremen for a few hours a rarity in this day and age. It was curiously quiet in fact for a Tuesday afternoon it was totally dead, on enquiring it turns out to be the anniversary of German reunification when East and West joined up again. So everything was shut. Celebrations? Some of the crew who had been ashore the previous night were surprised at the pace of drinking that was going on for a Monday night, maybe that explains the ghost town a collective hangover that has been going on for 16 years.
In a previous post I mentioned a ship called Blucher that was sunk by the Norweigians in WW2. It was named after Von Blucher who was a general who joined with the Duke of Boots at Waterloo, he was a Prussian and Prussia was a driving force in the first German Unification, some kind of weird set of Teutonic coincidences going on here.
Anyhow, time for my leave, more news soon.Tim.
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