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Than you very much for your good wishes, Keesha. Glad to hear you enjoyed your European trip and wish you all the best on your future travels. Do you have any strong impressions you would like to write about? I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who'd be interested in hearing about them. I...

Our friends in Massachusetts had been having a rough time of it, with the husband being diagnosed with throat cancer. After investigation he was told that it was operable and didn’t appear to have spread. The operation went ahead and was followed by radio therapy and chemo. It had been some...

Looking back on this tour there are several points which strike me. Firstly, as Jackie remarked at one point, when you’re touring you live out of a suitcase with your clothes getting progressively more rumpled as time goes on, necessitating a complete repack every four or five days. On a river...

Jackie and I slept soundly that night and in the morning we only had to pack our toilet accessories, lock our bags and we were ready for the journey home as soon as we had finished breakfast. We wheeled our bags up to the gangway and stacked them with the other bags that were going to Passau...

We cruised all night and during breakfast the ship moored in Dürnstein in Austria. What a beautiful spot this was, sitting on the Danube, surrounded by mountains. The day was clear, the sunlight dazzling on the small clouds that drifted above us occasionally and sparkling on the waters of the...

Thank you, Galja, I'm intending to live as long as possible. There's still an awful lot of places I have yet to see, even taking out the ones I can no longer visit because of their altitude and my inability to adjust to the lower oxygen levels in the atmosphere. My cousin has taken to calling us...

Monday morning and after breakfast we moored up in Mohacs for border controls as we were passing from Serbia into Hungary. Once the border officials had checked all our passports we had enough free time to walk into the town and have a look around. Like many middle-European towns this was a...

As Jackie and I made our way to our table for breakfast the next day a German lady to whom we had chatted fairly often jumped up and planted a smacker on my cheek and wished me a happy birthday in German. This is something that doesn’t happen often when you reach my age, so I enjoyed the...

We cruised the rest of the afternoon and all that night. Around 10 a.m. the next morning we went through the mooring process at Chiciu for those of us going on the tour to Bucharest to disembark and join our buses. It was a long drive to Romania’s capital, one and a half hours, but there was...

Oh, Catherine. That had me laughing out loud, even though at the bottom of it all is a tragedy that may impact people's lives for several generations.

Enjoyed your reply, Keesha. Jackie and I feel exactly the same way about rail travel. We always travel first class if we can as I'm getting just too old and miserable to cope with the crowding in second class. Have a wonderful time on your journey. And our tickets for the concert arrived this...

Now that, Keesha, is one heck of a round-Europe trip. We are due to go to Maastricht on the 15th as our son bought us tickets for the Andre Rieu open air concerts in Freedom Square on Saturday night. Jackie's getting nervous at the moment as our tickets haven't arrived yet. Fingers crossed. Like...

Forgot a couple of points as we're juggling Skype with two people - friends in California and my cousin in Whitstable. First, thank you for your very kind comments, they meant a lot to me when I read them, and secondly, where else are you travelling to on your holiday?

Hi there, Keesha, nice to hear from you. Yes I carry my test kit with me wherever I go. On a cruise like the one on the Danube the food was quite low carb, which I find helps me keep my BS within reasonable limits. I hope you have a great vacation in Vienna and Budapest and that the weather...

An early start this morning as we were to depart for a tour of Belgrade. We were delayed for 30 minutes because Serbian customs officers took their time checking our passports, so our early breakfast could have been taken at our usual time. When we finally set off my impression of Belgrade was...

I’m afraid there’s going to be a short interlude in this narrative as we shall be leaving tomorrow for two weeks in New England. We have friends in Massachusetts and the husband has recently been diagnosed with throat cancer. He underwent treatment which was successful and he is now back at home...

As we went to breakfast the following morning we could see the ship was coming in to moor up. The bank was a little higher here and there was a square-looking building up on top of the bank. A large sign proclaimed the word “Mohacs” along the front of the building. It turned out that this was...

Our dinner that evening was as good as it always was on board and after that we adjourned to the bar to await darkness when the ship was going to cast off and cruise past the Budapest sights at a time when they were all illuminated. I set my camera up for low light photography as the ship cast...

By day, the Hungarian parliament building is magnificent, another memorial to the time that Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the inheritance of the Hapsburgs. Shortly after we docked a number of us set off for the market which we were told was just behind the quayside where we...

When we woke up next morning we were still cruising along. We had a leisurely breakfast and passed the time in reading in the lounge and chatting with our fellow passengers. We watched the passing scenery and went up on deck when we passed through a lock,to watch the process. The Danube is a...