Category: Travel Journal
Travel Journal entries for each day
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With the ship swap, today was a bit of a bonus day in Passau. It was another beautiful European day, leaving me to doubt all these stories I hear about poor weather in Europe. My new best friend, Ian, and I decided to take a bike ride to Passau which is about 5 KM from…
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Once again we had another beautiful start to the day. Unfortunately, we needed to swap ships today, because the Danube River levels are a bit low between Nuremberg and Passau. This is not an insignificant endeavour, as it doubles the work for all the staff on both ships and involves a 200 km bus trip.…
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Today, we were on the the boat for the morning as we sailed towards Bamberg. We took the opportunity for a sleep in and skipped the normal breakfast as the ship folks had a ‘Fruhschoppen’ event schedule of 11 am. According to the Cruise Director, this is a Bavarian tradition to have beer and sausage…
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When we woke up this morning the ship was still moving. There had been a few more ‘bumps in the night’ as we traversed more locks as we continued to proceed upstream on the Main River. We docked after breakfast and found our bus that would take us on our city tour of Wurzburg, which…
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It a short blog tonight because we didn’t have that far to go overnight, but the locks do slow things down. Sometimes we had to wait for another ship or barge coming the other way to clear before we could go in. Most of the locks so far have been 2 or 3 metres, so…
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This morning was all about criusing through the Rhine Gorge. The weather was about as perfect as it could be, cool early, warming up to a sunny day. This was one of the parts of this trip I was really looking forward to. When I woke up I realised that the camera had not charged…
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The boat sailed all night as we made our way to Cologne in Germany. The flat land of Holland, based mainly around rural production changed quickly to a much more industrial feel once we crossed into Germany. There seemed to be lots of petro-chemical and power generation plants. The terrain was still flat as our…
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Another short blog today, as we spent a lot of it travelling. It was a slightly early start for us this morning as we needed to be showered, breakfasted and ready by 8 AM to catch a bus to Amsterdam, which was a bit over an hour up the motorway from Rotterdam. It was a…
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So it’s a fairly short blog today as we transition onto our river cruise. We woke up to another cloudy morning in Rotterdam, but it was a touch warmer than yesterday. We packed up all our bags and left them at reception of our hotel, while we went for the same breakfast as yesterday, although…
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Today is our last full day in Rotterdam and its a bit of a grey one, so we are going to pick up the last few things we want to do here. It’s cool. but not cold, so I declined to take my jacket for a walk today. We started with breakfast near the railway…