Koblenz Rhine Night Lights Countdown Timer

Koblenz is one of those places that gets skipped on the way to somewhere more famous, which is a shame, because at night the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel turns into a hall of mirrors and the whole town glows double. The twin towers up on the hill belong to the Basilica of St Castor, and they have been lit like that for so long that the locals probably stopped noticing. I was on the opposite bank with a cheap tripod balanced on a wall, and the water was so still that every streetlight came back at me as a long vertical line, gold in a black frame. The fortress on the far hill was lit too, up there on its rock above the river, a long low smudge of amber. A barge slid past in the dark, almost silent, with one small light on its stern, and the reflection broke and reassembled. Somebody was walking a dog along the quay behind me, and the dog kept stopping to look at the water. I understood. I stood there for a long time, and nobody asked what I was doing, which almost never happens.