Hotel Europa

I got a warm welcome in this Hotel in the midst of beautiful harmonic enviroinment.The owner is an extremly nice person surrounded by a young and positive staff.Good food, well prepared and affordable.Perfect place (all the area) for families, hide out, bicycles.Overall friendly and helpful locals. They cover the lack of infrastructure and management for pleasure crafts. It is a pitty how this canal, the ESK, provides for us. There is no logic which could explain this sad miss. I am sure that many more yachts would make a stopover to watch the impressive lock with a drop of 90 feet/30m, enjoy the landscape. Just to make an example. The only little place allowed to moore, is not even straight but curved. Long walking distance to the Aldi supermarket and.... it's on the other side of the mooring. There is no information or signs. The 2 locks themselves on the ESK do not show that they are pleased to see us. I am writing now because forced to wait for the lock to call me. From 05:30 that im waiting... now it's 08:00 and that meaning, i will not be able to reach my todays destination and this canal already cost me 1 day delay to deliver the yacht.Between the 2 locks, the canal looks more like an abbandoned waterway.I suggest that town mayors along the ESK sit together with the local tourist branch to raise and discuss the situation and or maybe take a johrney to visit and understand the other waterways of similar size more sensible for white boats. I know the locals would appreciate such improvement.Thank you all for this strange stopover and surly see you again...Consider that through the ESK, you are connected ro the Baltic Sea and the Mediteranean.