Month: January 2016

Day 21 – Vienna

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers My last day in Vienna and I woke to beautiful sunny skies.  I had nothing to do and all day to do it.  I headed off to the subway to find Belvedere Palace, solely because I’d seen some nice pictures of it. The…

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Day 20 – Vienna

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers I let myself sleep in today, I didn’t feel the need to be out taking pictures at 6 in the morning!  To find out where things were I decided to take the Ring Tram; it does one lap of the RingStrasse with commentary….

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Day 18 – A lot more Budapest

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers My mission this morning was to get to a spot on the Buda side across from the Parliament Building half an hour before sunrise which meant setting an alarm for 5:30 am.  I think it was worth it… Later that morning it was…

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Day 17 – More Budapest

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers Monday morning, departure day.  Time to say goodbye to all the great people I’ve been living with the last 2 weeks, it really was an awesome group. We arrived in Budapest early, around 10:30 I think?  Said my farewell’s and headed off to…

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Day 16 – Budapest

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers Due to low water levels on the Danube, we were unable to sail directly into Budapest.  This meant we had to dock in Komarom which is about 90 km away and go into Budapest by coach.  Avalon was exceptionally good at getting everything…

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Day 15 – Bratislava & Scloss Hof

This post is part of a series called Main & Danube Rivers Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and it’s largest city with just under 500,000 people.  The city borders both Austria and Hungary, making it the only national capital that borders 2 independent countries.  Our city tour took us up to the castle for…

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