Month: September 2009
Lubljiana and Bled
After crossing the border from Croatia into Slovenia, the environment was noticeably different. Slovenia is noticeably more affluent (probably because it is in the EU and didn’t have a six year long war that sucked up a lot of money). We moved from countryside in which houses were pock marked with holes from machine gun […]
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Plitvicka Jezera National Park
We had a long day of travel from Dubrovnick to northern Croatia. A we travelled north, the scenery changed from the harsh Dalmation coastline with its rugged limestone mountain ranges and stunted trees to one which was more temperate with grassland and forest. In the late afternoon, we arrived at Plitvicka where we stayed at […]
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Montenegro
On Saturday, we took one of the options available tours and did a day tour to Montenegro, one It is one of the old Yugoslav states and it added another country to my list. It was only a short distance from Dubrovnik to the border, which we crossed with ease. Montenegro is noticeably more poor […]
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Adriatic Coast
I realise that it is now a few days since my last posting and that’s because for the last six days, I have been battling a severe dose of gastro which has knocked me round solidly. It started after we left the ship.and it wasn’t until last night when we reached Dubrovnik that I was […]
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Budapest
‘Budapesht’, to use the correct Hungarian pronunciation, is the combination of two old towns – Buda and Pest. Buda is on the hilly northern side of the river and Pest is a flat city on the southern side. Cathy and Chris told us that we would like this place and they are […]
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The Danube
For the last four, or five days, we have been travelling along the Danube River. The first thing to tell you, is that it is not blue, if ever it was. We are now docked in Budapast, the capital of Hungary. The river here is about 300 metres wide and flowing quie fast on its […]
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Bratislava
Yesterday, we stopped for a little more than half a day in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. I’m getting a little ‘citied out’ now and this city started to meld with all of the others that we have visited. Every city has a cathedral, a market square and a town hall. The same obviopusly goes […]
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An Amazing Connection
We met up with Brian and Jean Hernen on our ship, a nice couple from Melbourne. Over a short conversation we found that they are very good friends of Bob and Marcie Whetstone, Some of Jill’s close circle of friends from her days at teacher’s college (Marcie, that is). What a small world to find […]
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Vienna
It would be very easy to get tired of seeing another city, but our visit to Vienna, the capital of Austria, was quite inspiring. In the morning, we did a city tour that took us to some of the main sites – the Hapsburg family winter palace and to the Opera House. It seems that […]
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Towns and Abbies
Our time over the last few days has been very busy and I am taking the opportunity of a wet afternoon on the Danube to catch up with some travel writing. We transferred ships and found our new ship (Scenic Emerald) at a little village of Vilshofen. Its easy to say that this is just […]
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Nuremburg Pictures
I took these pictures on our day in Nuremburg The grandstand where Nazi leaders reviewed their massive military parades Nazi Convention Centre Old Imperial Court Buildings Fountain – Old Town Centre Nuremburg Palace of Justice
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We are currently transferring from Nuremberg to Regensberg to change ships due to the problem of low water in the Danube River. We had packed our bags last night and they have been transported ahead of us while we had our morning tour of Nuremberg. It was interesting to see this city which was virtually […]
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