Viking River Cruise – Kehl/Strasbourg (Day 3)

Day 3 saw us firmly in cruise mode spending most of the day sightseeing and then travelling up the Rhine by night.J  We were still straddling the French/German border and moored at Kehl (Germany) in the wee small hours.

After breakfast (and the usual problems with allocation of numbers for buses!) we headed off to see Strasbourg, the largest city in Alsace (France). After a quick bus tour of the city environs, another beautiful medieval city centre was explored on foot and some incredible architecture on display

 

One of the highlights was undoubtedly the Strasbourg Cathedral with its astronomical clock which was incredible and well worth seeing if you are in the region

 

After a buffet lunch on the ship, we then set off on the optional tour to an Alsation winery and the old town of Obernai. The winery was a disappointment as the only thing we saw was the cellar containing old vats and sampled four wines.  Obernai was another lovely example of a medieval walled town – overall I felt that this optional was not worth the 49 Euro each!

Rhine River locks

As we travelled along the Rhine we were constantly travelling through locks on our way downstream.  After dinner on Day 3 we decided to go up to the sun deck and have a look at the scenery passing by. We were lucky that we were in a lock at the time and stayed up there to watch the ship travel through this one.  It was a strange sightseeing 2 river cruise lines (almost 200 metres in length) side by side in the lock with two tankers behind us!

 

The last photo was taken as we were travelling through the lock (roadway above us)