Rhein / Main / Danube cruise

If racial abuse wasn’t how I expected to remember the first day of our holiday, being the victim, albeit very minor, was… Read more: 07/03 Pre cruise days in Amsterdam #1

What a difference a day makes? Twenty-four little hours! After yesterday’s less than enthusiastic appraisal of Amsterdam, I’m prepared to eat my… Read more: 07/04 Pre cruise days in Amsterdam #2

It’s not quite Hollywood, but today was always going to be a different kind of day. We started the day by heading… Read more: 07/05 Pre cruise days in Amsterdam #3

An interesting day – that’s me being polite! Our ‘call’ was for 11:00 so we had a relatively lazy morning enjoying our… Read more: 07/06 First night on Emerald Star (in port)

Our last day in Amsterdam, indeed the Netherlands.  Rudely awoken by some elephantine idiot clomping around the walking track (directly over our… Read more: 07/07 Our last day in Amsterdam

Our morning was still cruising so we had a casual start, although complicated by us failing to make our breakfast order correctly,… Read more: 07/08 Rhein / Koln

An intentional late start, we enjoyed our breakfast on our balcony as we watched the amazing steep hillsides that dropped right to… Read more: 07/09 Rhein / Rüdesheim

That was the day that was … Today was always going to be interesting. We berthed at 11:00 a good 90 minute… Read more: 07/10 Main / Miltenberg & Würtheim

An early start as we are disgorged a few miles out of Würzberg, and bussed the last few miles so that we… Read more: 07/11 – Main / Würzberg

Our final day on the Main, we slowly inched our way towards Bamberg, passing a handful of locks whilst we had breakfast… Read more: 07/12 – Main / Bamberg

One could be forgiven for expecting the Nuremberg Ring to be somewhere in Nurenburg, well it isn’t! In fact it’s some 400km… Read more: 07/13 – Main-Danube Canal / Nuremberg

Today should have been a 26 km (16 miles) walk from Kelheim to Regensburg. That was the plan! We’ve very quickly learned… Read more: 07/14 – Danube and Canal / Riedenburg & Regensberg

Once again today is a two port day. Too far to walk however as Passau to Linz is 90 km! Several people… Read more: 07/15 – Danube / Passau & Linz

A humbling experience. We disgorged early to catch a bus up to the Melk Abbey, a working, living breathing place of some… Read more: 07/16 – Danube / Melk & Dürnstein

Viennese returns As best as we can recall it was 2004 when we came here for a short holiday. Suffice to say… Read more: 07/17 – Danube / Vienna

Today’s port was much more recently visited than Vienna, we were here to see a colleagues ballet only 18 months ago. It’s… Read more: 07/18 – Danube / Bratislava

Finally we’re at the end of our river journey (I hate, loathe and detest this expression but of course for once it’s… Read more: 07/19 – Danube / Budapest #1

Parisienne delights! Every which way one turns, the avenues are wide, often tree-lined, and with the most magnificent residences. Admittedly, some are… Read more: 07/20 – Budapest #2

City of two halves. After breakfast we head North East up to one of the main railway stations, the Eastern. It’s a… Read more: 07/21 – Budapest #3

Day 20. Journey home. Our transfer isn’t until early afternoon so we’re officially still in Budapest for half a day. Packing takes… Read more: 07/22 – Budapest #4