Continuing with the Kodachrome slides my father shot in Europe in the mid-1950s (original story in this post), we remain in Germany.
According to my mother, Bamberg is known as Klein-Venedig (“Little Venice”) because of its canal, although Wikipedia suggests no canal but the River Regnitz and only a colony of fishermen’s houses from the 19th century along one bank of the river get that appellation. Here are a few snaps of the waterway, the middle one featuring my mother.
Wikipedia my foot! It’s a river all right but do those look like fishermen’s houses to you? and they’re really old – but I doubt that anyone could make a living fishing a river (that probably had sewage and god know what floating about in it [since] the 1800s.
Thanks, Mom. Just doing my research and due diligence before posting anything misleading to my legions of followers…. 🙂