YS LelleBelle: Grosbliederstroff

Checking the water level constantly. We are sure it has gone down. Our friends have contact with the authorities and have informed us that the water levels are sinking, but still too high. We will receive more information at 12.

Meanwhile we enjoy the view from the boat!

We have time to walk around the French town, Grosbliederstroff , and have found some interesting things. Things you would never find if you were not stuck in a little side canal in Grosbliederstroff!!

In Sarreguemines we saw a memorial place with the "des magré-nous". We were wondering what it meant and did a research. It means the unvoluntary/forced recruitment of civilians to the military. We found a similar monument here.

We found a McDonald's advertisement

And a monument to the miners. The areas of Lorraine and Saarland have a long history of coal and iron ore mining. The coal and the iron ore are the main ingredients for makining steel. It is from these areas that people with competence were recruited to develop the Swedish iron ores in Bergslagen hundreds of years ago.

"Bergsmän vi äro, bergsmän av ära, järnets och stålets och gruvornas män"

There is no end to new discoveries.

Here is a tribute to the men of the 70th Division of US, the Trail blasters, who liberated Grossbliederstroff in 1945.

Eddy and Leslie took and afternoon walk to Güdingen lock and reported back to the captains that there is place to moor. And now we are back at the Güdingen lock.We found the Dutch people in the tiny boat and the boat from Luxembourg still waiting to go through. After a chat with the lockmaster we understand that the water level should go down another 2 cm before we can move! So it's back to studying the behaviour of geese!