Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Last day of the holiday and I was glad we weren’t getting the Manchester flight as that would have required a very early start since the coach was leaving the boat at 04:30! As we weren’t due to leave until 14:30 we had the rest of the morning to explore. We had decided on a …
The weather certainly has been variable on this trip. We started the week in macs and ended it in tee shirts and shades. It has been beautiful today, hot and sunny, leaving its mark on the top of my head. As Uber is banned here in Budapest we used local taxis via the Bolt app …
Almost every aspect of being on the river cruise boat has been wonderful with the exception of the temperature onboard – which has been boiling. The cruise director, in one of her regular talks, explained that the “ship had thought that it was winter” as if it was some sort of sentient being rather than …
We’d traveled overnight from Linz further down the Danube to the small town of Melk. I’m told that we passed through a lock at midnight but I slept through that. I’m hoping that we pass through one in the daylight as they really are a sight to behold. Melk We’d not been to Melk before …
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We went on a river cruise down the Danube a year ago and were so enamoured with it that we asked my parents if they would like to come with us on a similar trip this year. They did and here we all are. It has been a very long time since I have been …
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We weren’t due to arrive at Bratislava until early in the afternoon and so we spent the morning on the boat watching the world go by. For the most part it was just beautiful tree lined banks with the odd fisherman here and there thrown in for a bit of variety. Then we could see …
Never has there been a more stressful start to a holiday than this. The rumbling on of the pandemic means that there are more hoops to jump through before you can, in our case, set sail to foreign climes. This started a few days before we were due to fly out to Budapest for the …