Cruise Talk

We disembarked from the river and then took about a two hour drive via coach to Bucharest where our local tour guide took us to the very larger Government Administration and Parliament building that was built during the Nicolae Ceaușescu rule of Romania. The building stands at the end of long boulevard that is linked with massive buildings. Ceaușescu tore down many buildings and redesigned the whole city in order to enact his vision. After… Read more

I am not sure what we were expecting to see in Transylvania, but a Royal Saxon city was certainly not high on the list. The beautiful city of Brasov was once a royal city in the Austria-Hungarian empire. It architecture… Read more

I really don’t have any pictures of this port. It was literally just a dock on the side of the river where we disembarked and got on our bus to go to Bucharest. Guests were divided into three buses. Two… Read more

Our morning started with traversing the final lock on the Danube/Black Sea Canal and sailing into the Black Sea. It technically was the protected harbor area of the black sea, as our river vessel is not suited for sailing open… Read more

We had two choices in Rousse, the simple option was a guided tour of the town led by our cruise manager. That is what Steve chose to do. They explored the town which featured both the pre 20th beautiful architecture… Read more

The small town of Vidin, Bulgaria had a big increase in population when the communists decided to relocate people from their farms to cities to work in factories as part of their industrialization efforts. The town does have some lovely… Read more

It really is a misnomer to say that this day was in Donji Milanovac, because our two excursions were not in the town. Our first stop early in the morning was at the Gulubac Fortress. That fortress is about 1… Read more