Back from Europe

I wish I could have posted before now, but we were so busy on the cruise and the internet connectivity was so slow that it was just too difficult to do much. We had a great trip. Viking is the only way to go for river cruises. We had one slight blip--the water in the Main Danube canal was too low to let our ship pass, so we had to bus from Nuremberg to Passau. Fortunately, the sister ship of the one we were on was on the other side of the bottleneck, so we just swapped ships. It turned out to be only a minor inconvenience.

The cities Viking chose to visit were all very interesting. I'm sure there are a lot more, but we were happy with the ones we visited. We saw some amazing things, but after a while it all sort of runs together. Here are some selected photos of the things we saw.

August 26 Cologne.

August 27 The Middle Rhine and Marksburg Castle

August 28 Miltenberg

Jewish Cemetery

August 29 Wurzburg and Rothenburg

August 30 Bamburg

August 31 Nuremberg

September 1 Regensburg

September 2 Passau (now on the Danube)

potter at work

1493

September 3 "The Wachau" Krems and the Melk Abbey

September 4 Vienna

Mozart

inside a Greek Orthodox church

interesting clock

September 5 Bratislava

September 6 Budapest

parliament at night

black plague memorial

St Stephen

We got to tour the galley in our boat.

wurst cooking

schnitzel cooking

 Our Chef

 

Our waiter Tijomer taking a selfie with us in the background.