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  1. 05-19-2019, 09:18 AM #1
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    We left on May 3 and got back yesterday, May 18th.

    We took a river cruise on Viking Tours from Budapest, Hungary to Amsterdam, Holland. A distance of 1100 miles on multiple rivers and one canal. We traversed 68 locks in the process. Our elevation changed from 314' in Budapest on the Danube to the highest point of commercial ship traffic in the world on the Main Danube Canal at 574', then dropped back down on the Rhine to -6' at Amsterdam.

    The ship was the Longship Viking Bragi.

    We were in the following countries:

    Hungary
    Slovenia
    Austria
    Germany
    Holland

    Overall this was a great cruise---and I do (did) not like cruises. Everything was first rate, the service was impeccable and the attention to detail refreshing.

    I will write more latter---I have work to be done!
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    Welcome back, Dave......Ben
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    Thanks Ben---it is good to be back
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Glad you made it home.
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    Without photos, it did not happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Without photos, it did not happen.
    I was too relaxed to take pictures---I left that up to the retired folks among us

    I'll see what I can pull together. My only photos were of a very unusual cable stayed bridge in Rotterdam.
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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I was too relaxed to take pictures---I left that up to the retired folks among us

    I'll see what I can pull together. My only photos were of a very unusual cable stayed bridge in Rotterdam.
    The two times I was in Europe I took pictures of bridges and neat tin roofs in Romania, extreme fences in the Ukraine and so forth. Talked a manager type to allow me into the attic at the hotel we stayed at and took pictures of thousand year old rafters etc.. When I got back to the states everybody kept asking where were the pictures of the group and the people. That's what everyone was taking pics of!
    This is your mind on drugs!
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    Excellent pic, Dave.

    I'm pleased the trip went well and just as pleased you are back.

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    I'm not a fan of the cattle calls on cruises but the Viking River Cruise is on my bucket list.... All I need is a job so i can buy a bucket ....
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    This was my third cruise--and by far the best yet.

    My last one was on Holland America, I took my wife to Alaska up the inside passage to Skagway and then via bus over to Whitehorse in the Yukon, then to Fairbanks on the Alaska highway, down to Denali and then via train to Anchorage.

    I did not like the cruise portion at all---it ignored everything that was going on around us. It seemed somehow phony.

    My first cruise was a long one--28 days on the Pacific and then they dropped the anchor---told us to get off on the boats pulling up next to us---and then the bastards pulled up the anchor and left---took me a year and a half to get back home
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    While you were gone National Geoghraphic had an article on white asaragus. You missed it
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    Glad you are home safe and sound.
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    Munster had a asparagus festival and you were messing around europe

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/t...sparagus-food/
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    Munster had a asparagus festival and you were messing around europe

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/t...sparagus-food/

    The entire country is a spargel festival---and I am all in! I did not get my fill---but then again I don't know that that is possible

    500g is a good start to a nice meal
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