Wolves Wild

Looking across the Mosel at Trier to the impressive sandstone cliffs on the far bank. The disturbance in the water in the fist picture is from one of the cruise boats, turning to head back downstream

Creeping yellowcress growing by the footpath along the Mosel at Trier

More of the Egyptian geese at Trier, these families with well-grown goslings. One set on the bank of the Mosel, yards from where the riverside footpath gets at its busiest with traffic from the excursion boats. The other family swimming with the current, passing through an arch of the nearby bridge.

Keys ripening on a maple by the River Mosel in Trier. Picture taken at the end of May: much earlier than the keys would have begun to develop here.

The wall of padlocks on the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge across the Rhine at Cologne. No further comment.

Trier, on the Mosel in Germany, was founded by the Romans and was at one stage the western capital of the Roman Empire. During this period buildings of an appropriate magnificence were built, with remains still extant today.

Here the bases of the walls of one of the three huge public baths, covered in moss and other low vegetation.