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Cruising (and Hoteling) the Danube from Budapest to Nurnberg on Viking, April 2008

We flew to Budapest and took a Viking River Cruise on the Danube, visiting Budapest, Hungary, Bratslavia, Slovakia (unplanned - lock problems!), Austria's Vienna, Melk, Linz, & Wachau/Strudengau Vallies, and Germany's Passau, Deggendorf (unplanned - more lock problems!), Regensburg, Kelheim and Nurnberg. We then rented a car and drove 3 hours to Schwangau, Germany, home of Schloss Neuschwanstein. A slightly chilly, and often wet trip, but a wonderful one, affording many sights and insights into Central Europe. I have always wanted to go back to Germany since living there as a child, and going back did not disappoint! We took tons of photos, and even Howard got in the act, taking a number of wonderful ones with his new, tiny, dyn-o-mite camera! Email us if you want the narrative that will go in my travel book....
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Our sister ship, Viking Europe, squishing in next to us in a lock in Austria
Our sister ship, Viking Europe, squishing in next to us in a lock in Austria		 One of the many Austrian villages we passed in the Strudengau area of the Danube.
One of the many Austrian villages we passed in the Strudengau area of the Danube.		 Ruth & Howard chowing down on the Neptune with Leslie & Glenn from the LA area.
Ruth & Howard chowing down on the Neptune with Leslie & Glenn from the LA area.		 The Captain (6 ft. 7) and the hotel manager
The Captain (6 ft. 7) and the hotel manager
Melk Abbey - a beautiful, humongous abbey set high on a hill
Melk Abbey - a beautiful, humongous abbey set high on a hill		 Inside the abbey (part of Marble Hall)
Inside the abbey (part of Marble Hall)		 Hard to explain this display, but it was visually stimulating!
Hard to explain this display, but it was visually stimulating!		 The spiral staircase in Melk Abbey (had mirrors beneath and above)
The spiral staircase in Melk Abbey (had mirrors beneath and above)
Linz, Austria: view from our ship - a brightly lit museum, and the bridge from the old part of town to the new
Linz, Austria: view from our ship - a brightly lit museum, and the bridge from the old part of town to the new		 Another of those sunburst monuments - this one in the main square of the old part of Linz
Another of those sunburst monuments - this one in the main square of the old part of Linz		 Maintenance chief, Marek, Katarina, Peter, Annika and other Viking employees
Maintenance chief, Marek, Katarina, Peter, Annika and other Viking employees		 The Viking Europe was never far from us!
The Viking Europe was never far from us!
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