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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I sincerely trust this hasn’t been spotted before:
How about a pedal steamer ride on the on the huge lake of the park, past the Bavaria statue and the St. Bartholomä chapel towards a romantic castle, ...
Those who prefer to relax instead of being active can go on board of the historical pedal steamer and enjoy the vineyard or ride the “Lößnitzdackel†which….
These might well have been produced by the same German press-release writer, which I find amusing given a German pronunciation of ‘paddle’. Further afield we have:
On the very first day in Bangladesh Funato took a pedal steamer to Barisal
Enjoy the scenery as you take this delightful authentic pedal steamer across the lake that sits in the centre of our little bit of America
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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An immigrant discovers a different America.
In that first year ‘on the road’, I fell in love with my native land. I rode the Warbarch Canoebow train through Indiana. I rode the Delta Queen pedal steamboat down the Ohio river.
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