Celebrating 49th Anniversary in Passau

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Took CK Shuttle again from Cesky Krumlov Czech Republic to Passau Germany. Passau is right on the border of Czech Republic, Austria and Germany at the confluence of three rivers. The Bavarian mountains surround the city and create a very rural area dominated by tourism and logging. This is the city where we connect with our river cruise to Budapest. We arrived two days to settle in and get a feel of the city and do a couple of weeks of laundry. The main sights were the bishop's house and St Stephen's cathedral. The cathedral is a mixture of Gothic and Baroque. With almost 18000 pipes, it is the second largest organ in the world behind the Mormon church in Salt Lake city. It was interesting going down the Danube through the series of locks as we were lowered this 433 ft long ship down several feet to the river below the lock with inches to spare on both sides. Coming into Linz was gorgeous. Also, Viking surprised us with a beautiful desert after dinner to help celebrate our 49th wedding anniversary.

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Photos

St Stephens
Organ with 77000 pipes

St Stephen
77000 pipes

Linz
Coming into Linz at night

Comments

[Betty McNairy]

Hello from Roseville
What beautiful scenery and architecture! Looks like a wonderful trip. Happy 49th. Betty and Jim