4. Being told your setting can't meet need but there being no other setting nearby that will take your child. Tales of kids out of school for years at a time. Parents having to give up work. Remortgaging. Being solely responsible for 24 hour medical care.

Yep! Started in Switzerland at the top of a mountain, ended in Netherlands at the end of a concrete walkway :-)

Have a fantastic time. Beautiful area

aha! Amazing. That's exactly the stretch I thought it was - I was looking at a photo taken here, thinking it must be around there somewhere :-)
It's such a long, diverse river, but bits of it are really firmly stuck in my head!

Whereabouts are you, Jonathan? We cycled the length of the Rhine (source to sea) a few years ago, and this feels like the area West of Mainz (Bacharch), but we saw a lot of river! So I'm interested...
Anyway... enjoy :-)

Refraction in action! Not quite sure where the rest of my body is...

...yep... guess who decided to go and swim in a river among them all....