– what a greeting to Belgrade! We wake up or better yet are woken up by loud rock music. Not coming from the ship but from a joint on a place across the river. Here it is about 5:30 AM and they have been going all night! Don’t know when they shut …
EuropeanSojourn2017
1-July-2017 (Saturday) Osijek, Croatia
today we leave Western Europe and head into the Balkans area with our arrival into Vukovar and Osijek. The main reason for this very noticeable difference is that in 1991 was the outbreak of the Balkans war mainly between Crotia and Serbia. There are …
30-June-2018 (Friday) Kalocsa, Hungary
we are floating along on the Danube heading to Kalosca. The tour items today are an organ concert. The local cathedral - there is a bishop and archbishops located here. The town was also a Soviet base during the Cold War for some occupation troops. …
29-June-2018 (Thursday) Budapest (Szekesfehervar), Hungary
sure what to do today as rain. I was planning on heading over to Szekesfehervar which was the capital of old Hungary but what with the rain decided not to go. So Patricia and I went to the main market - only about three blocks away. Last time we were …
28-June-2018 (Wednesday) Budapest, Hungary
Shore excursion into Budapest we omitted as we have been here several times. I did go with the tour bus and got off at the National Art Museum – oh well – will reopen in 2018! Headed back and bought a tram ticket to get to the ship which is near the …