October 13, 2021

Danube River Cruise

 

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 brûlée & 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


Göttweig 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


Schönbrunn 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



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