On our first evening on the Panorama, it happened to be Val's birthday. The crew brought a cake to our table. It was such a nice thing to do.
We stayed in port at Budapest on our first night and would depart late tomorrow, proceeding up the Danube River.
It was a relatively balmy evening and we went up onto the top deck for a little while.
This is Matthias Church and the Hilton hotel.
I came prepared with my Vegemite in a tube. Last overseas trip I forgot to take one and suffered severe withdrawal. I love my Vegemite toast. However, I should have known that a cruise company with a strong Australian influence would have had a jar on the breakfast counter, and they did.
Underway, up the Danube, we passed through one of the many locks.
This was our first castle, and, as it turned out, our last.
You may notice the water level. It was rising, and flowing very fast. It reminded us of the Brisbane River during those terrible Queensland floods 2 years ago.
There was also a lot of debris floating downstream. Some very big trees, much more substantial than the bush in this photo. Trees don't break loose and get swept away unless they are being undermined by a river that is faster and higher than normal.
These hydrofoil, high speed ferries zoomed up and down the river.
We had a shore excursion in Bratislava but it was very wet. Raining all day.
It had been raining much, much harder upriver in the Bavarian Alps. All the water falling in the Alps was heading for the Danube, the Rhine and the Elbe rivers. And there was a lot of rain falling.
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