The boat has safely arrived thanks to Gary from Aquila Logistics so we are good to go…

Except for the record flooding – the worst in 500 years. We learnt a new German word; Katastrophonalarumn.

The good news is the water levels are dropping quite markedly in Ulm so fingers crossed we can set off soon. This is unlikely to be before Thursday though. We will need to keep an eye on the news further downstream though.

Yesterday was good as we met Pedja, our Serbian friend who plans on continuing our journey after Istanbul by rowing all the way from Istanbul to Athens. It was great to meet him in person an we will get to meet the rest of his crew in Belgrade when we row through.

Ulm Ruderclub have continued to very generously help us out. Michael and Connie put us up in their house which sits on an Island in the Danube. We even managed to squeeze in a trip to a microbrewery overlooking the Danube.