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Danube
In 2011 Susan and I set off on our first ever European River Cruise. The company we selected was Phoenix Holiday and the cruise was a combined Amsterdam and Tulip fields and a trip up the Rhine from...
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Passau
We had embarked just down river of Passau owing to the fact that in Passau itself there was no access for coaches or cars near the docking stands. We were advised that we would be sailing back up to...
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Linz
Well folk this time I’m not telling the tale, my Partner Susan is taking on this task – Over to you Susan….. Right, well …Walter reckons he can’t remember very much about Linz despite (or because of?)...
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Melk
Melk, is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,222 (as of 2001). It is best known as the site of a massive...
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Wachau Valley and Dürnstein
After a nice Austrian food experience – aka lunch on board the Viking Legend, we set off for a cruise down the , reputed, best part of the Danube, the Wachau Valley to Durnstein. Up until this cruise...
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Vienna (Wien) Part 1
What does Vienna (Wien) conjure up for you? Are you a Romantic that sees the street cafes and hears the waltzes of the Strauss family (father and sons). Perhaps you are a classicist and hear the works...
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Vienna (Wien) Part 2
Schönbrunn Palace a 1,441 room Summer Palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Susan and I saw this in an Andre Rieu concert broadcast on satellite TV and we , well I, so wished to see the grand ballroom live...
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Bratislava
The capitol of Slovakia and also the largest city of that country. This was a first for me, due to my employment I was never allowed to visit Warsaw countries and Slovakia at that time united with the...
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The Golden Danube
In any holiday there are moments which stand out and are forevermore impressed into the memory cells of the brain. Such a moment I described in my blog “River Cruise – Vienna” I will always recall...
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Budapest
Saturday May 2012, woke up to a bright sunny dawn felt good until I realised this was the last day of our River Cruise down the Danube. Today we would spend time in Budapest, the Capitol of Hungary....
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