FALTBOATING IN GERMANY
CONVERSATION with friends just back from Faltboating in Germany started us. I had thought a faltboat (folding boat) a sort of collapsible rubber bathtub, but our beautiful two-seater, 18 feet long and weighing only 50 pounds, was as trim as a yacht. Four inches of water floated it, yet it could safely ride waves and rapids. Folded, it fitted into what might be a golf bag. My daughter and I paddled eight rivers that summer in Austria and Germrnv. coverine 750 mil s
for a picnic lunch. hoyv *ood it was to stretch out, read, and day-dream, then get ourselves snug in the boat again and push off. lords bf all we surveyed. How we gloried the wooded cuffs and vine-terraced hills, the ancient villages and castle ruins If you would see Europe at its most romantic, spend the daytime paddling down its rivers, landing at dusk to prowl some historic stronghold. The past is yours without the asking.— Cornelia Stratton Parker in German
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 8
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