As usual when we are away, England have am important football match, so I spend ages getting the satellite set up. I have been using a freeview receiver as a sat finder to good affect before connecting the proper sky receiver but the remote control for it is missing, it has never been out of the van so where is it (when we get home it is in the house???)? So it takes longer than it should but I get it working in the end, then a motorhome that was on the river leaves and Dot suggests we move, even though I have just got the sat working, I agree, we are here for the views not the TV. Luckily the man with the key for the electrics is passing and I ask if he can change them over, he tells us to hurry, instructing Dot to move our chairs into the space, as another van is checking in and we don't have long. Within minutes we are in a new position next to the river and I am setting up the satellite again.
On the afternoon we walked into Koblenz centre, it was a lot bigger than we thought it was, it was also quite a long walk, when we got all the way round to opposite the site we found a ferry the crosses to the site and back for only €0.80 each.
I should have read their website better, the ferry goes whenever there are any passengers, from 08:00 to 20:00 each day. After a walk around town and climb up the monument at the confluence for some photos, we head off to find out how much the river trips are for tomorrow. We do not fancy the short one hour trip but a longer one, only I have to be back in time to have food in town and get back to the site before the football at 21:00. One trip is €24 with breakfast but is too late back the other shorter one, is trip that gets back in time and is €19.50 but we can not make up our minds, so we have a beer to help clear our minds.
After the beer and still undecided Dot spots the city tour land train thing so we hop on for a guided tour. We then look for where we will eat tomorrow and then head back to the site but using the ferry this time.
Back at the site having a beer and chips with mayo, we notice that you can get boat trip tickets from reception and the €19.50 trip is only €16 from there, so that's the one we go on. By the way, the site doesn't accept debit cards so I have to nip back to the van for more money. Later back at the van we are unable to sit out for long as the bugs are back.
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