Showing posts with label boat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boat. Show all posts

2009-09-11

boat, fire engine, lock

Drama on the Saar

I occasionally feel like a journalist as I go around the city documenting it with photographs. When I took the photo above, I even beat the professionals to the scene.

A tourist boat (not 2009-08-30) began to belch smoke as it was making its way through Güdingen lock. A fire engine soon arrived, its siren clearing the  Sunday strollers from the footpath. Soon after, three more fire engines and several police cars turned up to crowd onto the narrow tow path. Above you can see the first, rather ancient, fire engine and the passengers evacuating the boat.

The next day in the paper, I read that the there had been a fire in the engine room, which the captain himself actually put out with a fire extinguisher.

2009-08-12

boat, saar spektakel

Saarbrücken ahoy!

I was sure this boat was about to crash into both the bank and me, but in the last second it turned to line up along the bank.