A plea to those overseas

[Barge1914]

I remember the first time we went to Germany, we had two weeks of rain.
The locks closed on the Rhine and the Mossel as the water was too high
Flooded towns, with water up to bedroom windows
Stelplatz under water so we could park anywhere
We still got about and enjoyed

Was that by any chance 2013? Not only did we have fun with the floods that year, the big inclined plane boat lift at Arzwiller conked out with us in it. Spent the afternoon floating in a barge in a giant bathtub halfway up the hillside with a grandstand view of the valley while they sent off to Nancy or Strasbourg or somewhere for an engineer who knew how to fix it. We were lucky it worked coming back up a week later, as a couple of days later it went into terminal decline when the top gates failed and drained the canal into the valley below. It took the next 8 months or so to get it working again. If we had got stuck we’d never have got back and would have missed the guy who bought the barge off us and we probably would never have ended up with our motorhome. How fickle is life!

 

[Gummy]

Does this make you feel better...

How many words do Norwegians have for rain? Monday rain, Tuesday rain, Wednesday rain...., breakfast rain, lunch rain, tea rain, high tea rain, supper rain, midnight snack rain, rain in the egg butties!
It’s enough to drive a person to drink...rain in the wallet!!

At the moment where the beautiful view of the fjord should be framed by two towering cliffs...we have high speed horizontal soggy fog.

Forecast.... rain!

This was Norway for us earlier this year: