Oct 5: Travel
Leave SLC 2:10 pm
Arrive Amsterdam 7:30 AM
Oct 6: Passau Germany
Arrive Munich 10:30 am
Arrive to boat at 1 pm
Lunch:
Alfredo (D) Soup/Salad (A)
Viking Ingve #29
Only 40 passengers (usual 200)
Covid test every day
Michael cruise director
Daniel hotel manager
Tom (& Nancy) at lunch
Blondie on piano
Gabor maitre de
Pay to use Restroom .50-.60
quiet vox
Aaron goes on city tour with tour guide - just him
Dinner:
Shrimp (D) Short Ribs (A) Keylime Pie
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Oct 7: Passau, Germany
Navy Turtleneck, jeans, brown sandals, green rain coat, blue bucket hat (LOST)
Passau Walking Tour
9-10:30 am
Passau:
- three rivers (Danube, Inn, ___) converged to shape a distinctive city.
- St. Stephen’s Cathedral w/ largest pipe organ. Stucco worker’s crying daughter is cherub
TJ Max $22 Aaron’s shirt
Lunch 1 pm cheeseburgers
Slept.
1:30 PM Ship leaves
2 pm safety
3:30 pm apple strudel demo
4:15 pm Mozart presentation
Dinner: krustenbraten (D) Ribeye (A) creme brΓ»lΓ©e & walnut cake
9 pm German language
Watched CCHS FOOTBALL 3:30-6 am
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Oct 8: Linz Austria
Black & white checked dress , black sweater, black sandals
Linz Walking Tour
9:30-11:30 am
- new cathedral beautiful stain glass windows
- Roamed gentleman’s street to the city’s main square
Lunch: carbonara (D) soup/salad (A) peaches, vanilla ice cream, rasp sauce
Austrian Countryside
1:30 PM
- drove through farmlands outside Linz
- Farm & bread maker in Gutau, where we baked our own bread. Returning later to eat breads, meats, & cheese
- Visited Mittendorfer Schnapsmuseum and distillery.
Dinner: osso bucco
9 pm: sound of Salzburg (sound of music)
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Oct 9: Krems Austria
70’s jumper white T-shirt, black shoes, charcoal cardigan
Lunch: farmers salad brownie sundae
GΓΆttweig Abbey
12:30-3 pm
4:15 pm shopping
Chocolates for kids $25
Jam & chocolate $37.50
Jacket for Aaron $32
Dinner: gross Braun’s buffet
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Oct 10: Vienna Austria
Gray & white collared dress, black shoes, black sweater
Panoramic Vienna
8:45am- 12:15 pm
- Vienna dances to a tempo all its own.
- Hofburg Palace
- St. Stephen’s Cathedral, crowned with a gleaming spire and colorful roof tiles.
Cake $15
SchΓΆnbrunn Palace
2-5:30 pm
Wax Press $58
The Hapsburg summer home and gardens
Dinner: snitzell (A) chicken (D)
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Oct 11 Bratislava, Slovakia
Blue & white floral dress - brown sandals brown cardigan
Bratislava Walking Tour
8:30-10:30 am
- Bratislavsky Castle
- Old Town Bratislava: statues (working man, drunk soldier, happy man)
- Colorful buildings
- Napoleons “balls”/bombs in houses (no tax)
Bracelets $20
Chocolate $52
Lunch: Asian salad
2 pm wheelhouse tour (only Aaron)
3 pm life behind the iron curtain
6:15 pm disembarkation
10:30 pm arrive in Budapest see it lit up- sun deck
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Oct 12: Budapest, Hungary
Black Peter Pan shirt, black pants, snake sandals, black coat
️Panoramic Budapest
8:15am- 12:15 pm
- Castle District with its massive hilltop castle, Matthias Church, named for the country’s most popular medieval king.
Life Behind the Iron Curtain
️1:45 PM
- Take a seat in a Trabant, an inexpensively produced “cardboard” car that was ubiquitous in Eastern Bloc countries during the cold war.
- Memento Park, a collection of imposing statues of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, a powerful reminder of the country’s time behind the Iron Curtain.
- Hungarian coffee house for cake,
- Roamed liberty square
Disembarkation:
2:30 am: luggage out
3:30 am: leave for airport
6:30 am flight