This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour We have been cruising up the Danube some days now, but water levels became too low, so we had to leave our boat in Regensburg and bus up to catch another boat in Bamberg. This marks our entrance to the Main River. Bamberg itself…
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This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour We arrived in Nuremberg after a long ride from Vilshofen to Bamberg to dump off our luggage, and then backtrack to the second city of Bavaria. Traffic was terrible, so we didn’t get to see as much as we wanted. Rather than join Deb…
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This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour After leaving Passau, we formally learned that we were going to have to change boats because the depth of the river near Nuremberg was definitely too shallow to pass. The good news that the twin of our current boat was going to pick us…
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This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour Today we stopped in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia since 1993 and earlier the capital of Hungary (remember what I said about Hungary being on the wrong “team” most of the time?). Clearly Slovakia got the best bits and Bratislava is a lovely (and…
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This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour After a lovely stay in Prague, it was time to head down to Budapest to pick up our river cruise. This was a horrendously long (7-8 hour) trip by bus, broken only by a rest stop at a way overcrowded roadside restaurant. We pulled…
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So, on we have gone to Prague, recognized as the “first beautiful city,” mostly thanks to Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor during the mid-14th Century. During his reign, Prague grew into one of Europe’s largest and most prosperous cities. While it reminded us a bit of Kraków, it is easily 2-3 times its size….
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We started our 2015 European adventure off visiting Kraków, Poland. Of course, part of the adventure was actually getting there. It took us about 36 hours – flights from Boston to Zurich, Zurich to Munich, Munich to Prague, and then the overnight train to Kraków. This was mad worse by the fact that Swiss Air…
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