men. If you ever want to make a really good experience in your life, I would highly recommend to do what I'm doing right now. I especially enjoyed the Main from Bamberg onwards. If you ask me, take it downstream!
It's easy to sail for everyone on the Main and so beautiful for more than 300 km. I was overwhelmed by the Main-Donau-Canal, which is surrounded by nature. Start from Kehlheim to Bamberg - it's beautiful!
Donau… well, I know the Donau from early childhood songs that my grandma used to play on the old record player over and over again. I know it from films we had to watch in our childhood and from grandma's traditional apple pie, which we cut into slices and went on with watching the news. The truth is: you sail on the Donau, thanking God every day for that experience. It's the sky, the landscape and the mood I can't describe. It's absolutely awesome! I got 1934,7 km left. My strategy to make my way without any money nearly doesn't allow any room for sightseeing. Though I'm thinking about anything else, I try to force myself to enjoy the beauty of the landscape. Sometimes I just let flap the sail, just to watch for a second.
In the daytime, sailing on the river is very lonesome for me. I already mentioned after my tour in 2008, that luckily during sailing my reproductive instinct is overridden somehow. I guess this is due to the mental burden that I definitely have. This seems to change: I watched two swans making love the other day. Another day I tried to recognize lingerie at a washing line… May I recover? Running girls at the coastline?? I gave up - First you watch, then you see someone running - I don't wear my glasses, by the way - then I think about using my telescope and see: it's a guy! Ugh!!
Seldomly enough some really nice girls go running along the coast, but, of course, in these moments there's a fly on the lense…
I had many rainy and stormy days, which is my kind of weather! I got up to ten knots, which is amazing! I don't want to think about the stuff that could happen in front of a coast when the wind is as half as strong. I had to change two rivets so far.
Another good thing is to enter the lock under those circumstances. Somehow the wind dams at the lock up to nine and brings heavy waves. A cargo ship, which wanted to enter the lock before me, scratched with the whole lane at the wall of the lock. We both were really relieved when we had mastered the situation. No moment is like the other out here, you got to watch out for any risks!
At least the microphone voices to register for locking in Austria are reliable, clear and friendly. Great! I know other countries, where this is not granted, but I don't want to name Germany right now.
I think about what may come and I realize that I'm mentally stronger than I was in 2008. I'll be in a completely unknown world in a few days. It's exciting and I'm bit scared. I know for sure that there will be great people waiting for me, no matter what language they may speak.
I will try to come to my limit concerning the sailing to know what the boat can do. I will need that knowledge someday.
It's Wednesday, 6th of July 2011. I'm in Kuchelau close to Vienna.
…at half past seven yesterday in the evening I met a rubber boat with two guys, whom I asked "you got a package for me?" "Yes, there is something up in the office!" Great!

A sponsored hat for mosquito protection from one of the most reliable, biggest and the world's best heating unit company in the north is now mine. Thank you, Stefan Schulz

I keep thinking of all of you and I'm already on my way back home

What a nonsense!