Geo: 49.9789, 7.92641Rudesheim, locally known for its fine Reisling and its quaint, 144m-long shopping street Drosselgasse. Population 10,500 and 3,000,000 tourists each year.Also there, was Siegfried's private collection of 350 mechanical musical instruments, dating from the middle 19th©. One of his machines included a piano keyboard and six violins (see pic and caption). I was also captivated by the collection of cuckoo clocks on sale, made in the Black Forest. These were beautiful and wonderfully intricate. If more than €400 was spent, the 19% VAT was waived and this more than covered the cost of shipping and insurance. Very tempted!After Rudesheim we sailed down the 50km Rhine Gorge, with castles and palaces every few km on both sides. Here the dastardly Nazis added castle-like stone facades to the railway tunnel entrances to fool the Allies. This
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