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DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 6 NOVI SAD & SREMSKI KARLOVCI, SERBIA

16 July 2026 No Comments

Next up after Croatia was Serbia. We moored at the city of Novi Sad, one of the European Capitals of Culture, full of varied baroque, neoclassicism and succession styles, all…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 5 VUKOVAR AND OSIJEK, CROATIA

15 July 2026 No Comments

Continuing down the Danube we crossed into Croatia and moored in Osijek, Croatia’s largest river port. We took a walking tour around the citadel which has the largest number of…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 4 MOHACS AND PECS IN HUNGARY

15 July 2026 No Comments

After our memorable visit to Budapest, we cruised down the Danube to Mohács, and did an excursion to Pécs, both also in Hungary. The excursion took us through Baranya County…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE 2025 – 3 BUDAPEST

7 November 2025 No Comments

This was the second revisit of the trip for us, but as with the Vienna stop it encouraged us to see some different things. We had remembered seeing the dramatic…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE JULY 2025 – 2 BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA

8 September 2025 No Comments

For our second stop on the Danube we left Austria and sailed to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, sited on the Amber Road, an ancient trade route linking Northern and…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE JULY 2025 – 1 VIENNA

6 September 2025 No Comments

This was our second visit to Vienna with Viking as this cruise started there and so overlapped with the end of our first river cruise in 2022. However, Vienna is…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 21: AUCKLAND FINALE

27 December 2024 No Comments

We travelled back down the eastern side of the island to Auckland, back past some nice views near Orewa and then of the city as we approached the highway to…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 20: BAY OF ISLANDS

26 December 2024 No Comments

Russell was a pretty little place with some more colonial style buildings which it seems I failed to photograph! There is a very posh hotel which the guides like to…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 19: WHITIANGA TO RUSSELL

26 December 2024 No Comments

Spoiler alert – this post is a biggie!! You have been warned! Ok so the title is not quite right either, as first we have the drive to Whitianga…. From…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 18: ROTORUA

25 December 2024 No Comments

From Napier we drove to Rotorua, via a couple of stop offs. The first one was Taipunga Falls, and then Lake Taupo, a big lake in the centre of the…