Saturday, Aug the 8th

Micael starts 6:00 AM and Olga joins for the first lock, so the skipper is left to sleep. Another day of good luck with the locks.

While speeding to keep up with a barge for entering together with into a lock, the motor starts to run a bit uneven. Probably a diesel filter being a bit clogged up, we think. Coming closer to the lock it dies just leaving us with enough speed to jump in land and tie the lines.

When checking there seems to be flow of diesel and no water in it. Still we change the filter and the motor runs again. We then see a small leakage on one of the supply pipes to the second filter (there are two in line) and after checking and re-tightening it is working again. Just to continue.

The kids use the stop-time to have some fun feeding the swans and bathing.

At 20.00 h we come in to the small town of Miltenburg. There is a lot of people and bands are playing rather loud. We are greeted into a small marina (but still bigger than it looked on the map) and they say that we can stay at the entrance. It turn out that tonight is the “Night of Lights” in Miltenburg. The population of 10.000 it quadrupled, two bands are playing on two scenes and they will have the biggest fireworks in Germany. We come into a lot of things by pure chance. The night gets a little later than usual.