The official journey is over — but we’re still moving, still documenting, still listening as we bring the ship back home. The crew has changed: Gigi and Stephan have left; Markus and Christine remain on board, heading upstream with a changing cast of artist-friends. The logbook continues.
Today we passed Djerdap I – an enormous lock. And yet, we managed to cover 95 kilometers. The ship was running smoothly, even with little current to help us.
We also crossed one of the most iconic stretches of the Iron Gates: the narrowest part of the gorge, where steep rock walls rise almost vertically on both sides. The river tightens here – the landscape pressing in, the water feeling denser under the hull.
Now we’re full of impressions from this long day – the lock passage, the cliffs, the intensity of this section.
By evening, we reached a familiar anchorage – a spot we remembered from the downstream journey. No current, just calm water – and finally, a swim.
