I’ve long wished my favorite Rhine town, Bacharach, had a museum. I found the attraction I craved in the next village over: The Kulturhaus Oberwesel is the best museum of its kind along this part of the Rhine. You’ll learn how salmon were once fished here, and how timber traders lashed together huge rafts and floated them to the Netherlands to sell. You’ll also see dramatic photos of the river when it was jammed with ice, and — as seen in this clip — review three decades of local wine queens.
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Reading your comment about men catching Salmon and building rafts to sell them in the Netherlands reminded me of meeting similar men sailing rafts down the Amazon to sell their wares and the wood. Why not do so, they had plenty of woods, which is something that I be the German’s said at one time too. I remember the sailors sharing their moonshine with me. Of course I tried a sample, it would be inhospitable not to.