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7-17-18 Tuesday. We spent the entire day sailing upriver on the Danube. The main attraction was the Iron Gates, a stretch of the river through a gorge that had been whitewater before a dam was built downriver and is now deep and smooth enough to accommodate riverboats. One side is Serbia, the other Romania. Trajan’s (Roman emperor) Tablet, carved in stone commemorating the completion of a road w... Read Full Entry

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