We woke up today in Germany. A cooler cloudier day than previous ones. We will be sailing until mid afternoon, then we will moor at Passau. A walking tour of the town is planned and then it is back to the boat to pack up our cases. We will remain on the boat overnight and then drive to Ragensburg to join our new boat. Perhaps the new boat will have better WiFi. As usual I’ll post the blog when the internet allows, so there may be a few updates during the day. One thing I meant to add was the passenger nationalities on the ship. Almost half are Canadian then Australian followed by New Zealand then USA and finally UK. It makes it simple for announcements as everyone speaks English!
This morning has been spent cruising the Danube and going through some locks. The last one was pretty interesting as there was a low overhead bridge at the exit of the lock. So low in fact that the radar head and the ships bridge cabin had to be lowered. We were allowed to stay on the outdoor upper deck but had to remain seated!
Below are some pictures of the cruising and the bridge passage.
This afternoon we took a walking tour of the town of Passau, the main feature of which was St Stephens Abbey. This is probably the first of many “quaint” little German towns we will visit. We have an earlyish start tomorrow to catch the coach to our next ship, so again I’ll just dump a few photos from the town walk.
