Frankfurt

At Frankfurt airport waiting on last leg of flight to Budapest.
Budapest @ Nite

First evening in Budapest—St. Stephen’s Basilica, Chain Bridge, Buda Castle Hill
Budapest

First morning in Pest, looking across the Danube at Buda
Great Market Hall

Visit to Budapest Saturday market equivalent. Paprika as far as the eye can see.
Hungarian Parliament

Parliament building with Hungarian and Transylvania’s flags flying, changing of the guard, Agriculture Building, and empty shoes memorial along the Danube for 1944-45 Holocaust victims.
Hungarian Parliament--Inside Edition

Went back this afternoon to see the inside of Parliament building on the 1530 English tour. Quite the structure, and quite the history. What was once designed for a bi-cameral legislature of theもっと詳しく
More from Inside Parliament

Only 6 photos per footprint, so here’s more from inside Parliament, and Buda Castle this evening.
Buda Castle District

Tour of Buda Castle District UNESCO World Heritage site with our private guide Timea, local Hungarian guide and historian, this am. Including Matthias Church, National Archives, and Buda Castle/Royalもっと詳しく
Heroes Square, Baths, and Metro

No soak for us, but we did check out one of Budapest’s most popular public baths. Also Heroes Square and the Metro back to our hotel. Then transfer time (about a three-minute plus walk) to our shipもっと詳しく
Jewish Quarter, Budapest

Monday morning (April Fools) visit to Budapest Jewish Quarter, Dohaney Street Synagogue (Europe’s largest, also known as the Great Synagogue of Budapest) and Museum, and what is essentiallyもっと詳しく
Lazar Equestrian Park, Rural Hungary

Visit to the Lazar Equestrian Park about 45-60 mins drive outside Budapest near Domony. A carriage dressage demonstration and more on Hungarian horsemanship. Local treats including chimney cake,もっと詳しく
Final Evening in Budapest

Our final evening in Budapest marked with sunset and beverages topside, and then a scenic dinner sailing up and down the Danube within Budapest for one last look, at night, of the many landmarks andもっと詳しく
Bratislava, Slovakia

Fascinating afternoon in the current capital (since 1993) of Slovakia, which city was also the capital of Habsburg-era Hungary from ~1526 until 1784. Among other sites on this unique and historicalもっと詳しく
Imperial Vienna

Imperial Hofburg Palace, the Volksgarten, melange and sachertorte at Sluka Conditorei, and apparently Austria runs on Dunkin’ too. Who knew.
Imperial Vienna--Summer Edition

Why stay in central Vienna in the heat (and smells) of summer when you can retreat to your hunting estate on the edge of the city and construct a 1,441 room palace there inspired by, if not modeledもっと詳しく
Imperial Vienna--Arts & Music edition

For a Baroque style evening and wanting to party like they used to in the guest palace (because really, who wants the guests in your own palace) of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), we travelled toもっと詳しく
Imperial Vienna--DIY edition

Today we ventured into the heart of Vienna more or less on our own. A little shopping at the Heindl confectionary and the Julius Meini deli (such a lox collection) and store, then a tour of the Sisiもっと詳しく
Creme de la Krems

If it’s Friday morning, it must be Krems, where we arrived after an overnight sail from Vienna. Depending on how you look at it (upstream or downstream), Krems is either the gateway to the scenicもっと詳しく
Linz

Linz, in imperial times, was the sometimes secure location for the Habsburg clan when or I f there was trouble or dissent in Vienna. Today it is Austria’s third largest city, with industriesもっと詳しく
Mauthausen Concentration Camp & Memorial

Less than 30 minutes from Linz, in the rolling agricultural lands above the Danube and with sightlines to the majestic and still snow-covered Alps in the distance, is the site of the Mauthausenもっと詳しく
Departing Deutschland

We awoke on the Danube still in Austria (despite last night’s shipboard farewell to Austria festivities of weiner schnitzel, grüner veltliner, and a Sound of Music singalong) and 25km downriver ofもっと詳しく