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