Thursday, 2 Oct, 10:15 AM Still in Austria cruising toward Passau, our first stop in Germany. The scenery is reminiscent of the Hudson around West Point; wooded slopes coming right down to the river. We are waiting for a lecture on European styles of architecture to start at 10:30. Yesterday we stopped in two places, Dürnstein and Mellk, both of which are in one of the wine producing areas of Austria, the Wurchau valley of the Danube. Dürnstein is a small village perched right above the river where we took a walking tour through narrow cobbled streets. Durnstein is noted for two things, good wine and the place where Richard the Lion Hearted was imprisoned and ransomed on his way home from the crusades. We spent a little over two hours in town, the first of
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