It is 7 AM and still dark. And only now are we finally leaving Dusseldorf. As the Rhine winds along we have passed urban areas, then industrial, then rural only to return to more urban again. It turns out Dusseldorf is much more than I expected.
I have Google Maps open to try to get some sense of where we are. In between here and our stop in Cologne is lots of countryside and a couple of smaller towns.
Even though to my untrained eye I thought we were making good time, the Second Officer pointed out yesterday that we are going upstream. Net result is that our passage is slowed by the speed that the river flows. When I was in the wheelhouse our indicated speed was about 15 knots (in relation to the water). The river is flowing about 6 knots in the opposite direction so our progress in relation to the land is only 9 knots.
Monheim am Rheim is the next town we will pass.
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