Switzerland has real paddle wheel steamboats.

May 29, 2022 9:33 PM

MissDeeMeanor

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Swiss steamboat "Bluemlisalp" on lake Thun. There are a lot of other paddle steamer on the lakes of Switzerland.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My hometown has the Belle of Louisville and I've riden on it many times. Really cool! And the calliope rocks!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These boats used to run up and down the river in my Province. Guy my mother worked with collected thousands of photos of steamboats.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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Gotta be Interlaken. Amazing place

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So does KY. Belle of Louisville still in business.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, so does the USA

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Here's one of them: https://youtu.be/scCD4REU0oQ

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I feel compelled, look up the belle of louisville. I worked there for a few years and its still a pretty cool boat to check out

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Eh, stern-wheelers are way cooler.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Scotland has the oldest paddle steamer in the world sails down the Clyde for holiday makers

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The oldest preserved, still timetabeled paddle-steamer is the Norwegian "Skibladner" from 1856. Still running scheduled runs across Mjøsa.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wheres the steam?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The most beautiful ship in the world.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

hey, welcome to my hometown

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Side wheelers are pretty common in Europe for river ferries.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

NOT steam.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Same in Norway on the Lake Mjøsa i think

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I rode a paddlewheel on the Ohio river once, during a festival in Cincinnati. It was kinda awesome not gunna lie.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm neutral on that.

3 years ago | Likes 96 Dislikes 0

Taking Switzerland I see

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well, the flag is a big plus.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Everything changed with the Fire Nation (Russia) attacked.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is the water really that color? Or is the video edited?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Video might be saturated, but water color is realistic. It comes from the glaciers so there it is very cold and has a lot of sand mixed in.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's real! It's due to the minerals in the mountains, it tints the water like that. Maybe slightly more vivid than in person but barely!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It just drove down from that mountain top.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's Interlaken, right?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The world's oldest wooden Paddle Steamer is in regional Australia on the Murray River.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Water is pretty much the opposite of that colour, though.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lot of silt in the Murray which makes it brown all the time

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's it... I'm going to Switzerland next year

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bring money.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I've been a few times in the last few years. Happy to give some tips if you want!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It looks like one of these five but I can’t make out the name: https://www.cgn.ch/en/fleet

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Close, the CGN operates on Lake Geneva, while this is Lake Brienz. The ship appears to be the Lötschberg, a smaller version of the CGN ones.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sweet, thanks!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1905 pre-dreadnaught design

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Their country's flag is a big plus ...!!!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Very similar to the steamers in Cleveland.

3 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 1

Oh STOP it

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Water is a slightly darker colour though.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My brain could not say this title properly...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Say it 4 times fast! I just tried and failed. Am I high?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Super high!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At your request I did a test two days later, tried it again. Yep, I was high! It took me a few times, though. +1

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I still can't comprehend it properly...this can't be the brain that read 4 books every summer...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The color of that river...

3 years ago | Likes 273 Dislikes 1

Don't jump in it if you're Indonesian though...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's probably the most expensive country in our solar system

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's "rock flour" from a glacier grinding down a mountainside. The ranger at Banff said that it's very hazardous to drink.

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

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It becomes like that when the water is clean

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

A river formed by run-off from peatland can be totally unpolluted, but be as brown as onion soup. Rocky mountains can give clear run-off.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

. . . and be chock full of giardia.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

True that. I should have said "human generated pollution". It can still be plenty mucky without us getting involved.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I know right? You can tell it’s not the US cause it’d be brown.

3 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 8

Rivers in the US are the same at similar high altitudes. IE: up in the mountains where they originate before they get polluted down stream.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wait river’s AREN’T brown?

3 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Not gonna lie, I honestly thought they all were, every one I've ever seen in this country has been. Assumed it was sediment.

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

It is sediment. The yellow river in China is well, yellow because of heavy clay deposits.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Detroit River

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Though maybe it doesn't count because A. it's technically a strait and B. is only partially in this country.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Side wheeler. You can still see some stern wheelers on the Mississippi I believe.

3 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Portland, Oregon as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kgIawVtLU

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I did not know that. Thanks for the video. +1

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They're mostly for show with the actual props underneath. At least the ones based in New Orleans were.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Ohio, Columbia, and Snake as well.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And the Ohio!

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

A cruise on the Belle of Louisville is always a treat.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Went on one on the Mississippi in New Orleans about 9 years ago.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mississippi Queen or something else? I think she is a rear paddle where this one is a side.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think so! Definitely a rear paddle wheel. Thanks!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Switzerland is one of the most gorgeous countries in the world. Fight me.

3 years ago | Likes 151 Dislikes 6

I cant. Too busy looking at the views.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Also the flag is big plus

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Incredibly expensive country! The hotel rooms are like jail cells, furnished with ikea.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

It... depends. I have been on some matchboxes, and some of those have views you can't believe. And I have been to some great rooms.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ok! Loser.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Hey, just saw him on the Obidiah Wan show.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Really? You make the world's least controversial statement and end it with "fight me"? "Liquid water is wet, fight me" gtfo

3 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Is water wet? Surely something is only wet if it's solid and got water on it?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

2+2=4. Fight me

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I would if you had used superlatives.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I agree, and I accept.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh no, you're correct. Unfortunately, it's also filled with the Swiss.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Fight you for what? What do I get if I win? 100 dollars?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

They don’t have Yosemite. That’s why you said “one of”

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I hire Swiss mercenaries to fight you for me.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I agree with you. Can we fight anyway?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Austria. Same beauty, less expensive.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Agreed. Austria is incredible too

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As someone living in Switzerland that just visited Austria, agreed.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

But they hace got i minus.. we have got a big Plus

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I really like garlic bread. Fight me.

3 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

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3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Jokes on you, I'm already fat

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Username, er... Checks out?

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The nature is, the people are racist f*cks who are extremely privileged due to national aid in tax fraud in other countries and also 1/2

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

lots of jewish assets that never got claimed, because their rightful owners died in german concentration camps.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

That's how they became rich. By crimes. But they try to uphold a myth of just being self-sufficient and clever.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Wow, educate yourself. The worst tax havens are in the USA and the Commonwealth.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

While this is true for today, it does not change the reality of how Switzerland came to wealth, or that many many Europeans still use 1/2

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1