As we approached the end of our cruise, our ship made one last stop in Austria, the port of Linz. This stop featured an excursion to Salzburg, known as the home of the Von Trapp family and the site of much of the filming of Sound of Music. We elected this excursion, a 3-hour bus ride, so…
Category: Austria
Durnstein
The fifth day of our cruise took us into the beautiful Wachau Valley of Austria. We visited two towns, Durnstein and Melk, about 30 km apart. I was planning to cycle between the two towns, rejoining the cruise ship in Melk. Alas, the weather did not cooperate. As we were about to depart, it was…
Vienna
One of our featured stops was Vienna, about 350 km (220 miles) upstream from Budapest. Vienna is quite different from the other cities we visited, more modern, more elegant and cleaner. Vienna was the dynastic capital city of the Habsburg monarchy, from 1583-1611. From 1804 to 1867 the Habsburg Monarchy was formally unified as the Austria Empire,…