The final day was spent sailing through the flatlands of the Netherlands, with windmills as the main attraction. At Kinderdijk, a World Heritage site, there are 19 historic windmills. TSH went on a walking tour of some of the windmills, including visiting one that at one time had housed a family of 15 people.
The word amongst the Embla passengers is that the Danube below Budapest is still closed to help with the search for the bodies of the people drowned in the recent collision. Hence ships such as the Viking Lif cannot go south and also cannot go north because of the high water. It is rumoured that passengers have decided to abandon their cruises and return home.
The infrastructure of the Danube/Main/canal/Rhine is not really capable of supporting the amount of traffic it has attracted. A victim of its own success.
The holiday was completed with the KLM flight from Amsterdam to Manchester.
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