Next time your kids squabble, tell them what happened to the two German “Hostile Brothers.”

Let’s time travel back to the 14th century when young Henry and his younger brother Konrad, sons of a noble, fell in love with the same girl. Our always engaging cruise director, Rachel Couto Gomes, narrates their story as we cruise on the AmaWaterways Serena on the scenic Middle Rhine. We pass ancient hilltop castles, one after another – more than 40, with small villages below and camper vans parked river side.

“The views never get old,” said John Joy, enjoying his fifth AmaWaterways river cruise.

Though the girl at the center of the brothers’ love triangle, a young cousin in some versions of the story, preferred Henry, Konrad proposed first and then he left to fight in the Crusades, returning

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