freshest air, discreet lapping of waves, soothing, clean landscapes along the banks - what else is needed for the troubled soul, a harrowing rush of eternal capital life! Danube River Cruise - employment mainly for middle-aged people who want to improve your health - physical and mental.

second is easy

; Although the maximum speed of River Cloud II 18 km/h when you are on board, no feeling that it is much higher. It seems that the passenger cars, trucks and buses, sometimes traveling on the highway, running along the Danube bank, each time making significant efforts to overtake the river boat. Cyclists as hopelessly behind. We have a straight path surface transport has to obey whimsical curves of the coastal highway.
Impression that not too richly inhabited these places. Come across a neat estate and the surviving medieval castles. Sometimes it's just polbashni and a fragment of the wall, but as they stands majestically on the banks of the Danube! Vineyards on the slopes. Adherent kakimto an incredible way to steep cliffs domikignezda. Looking closely, you realize that there, this cooler is, may drop in the machine. Clean air is filled with the surrounding space. Not only that, the Danube, is it still "lungs of Europe" next to the Bavarian and Bohemian forests. A pleasure to breathe and take pictures, until once again is filled USB flash drive ...
farther into the past takes a journey, the less enthusiasm. But do not forget, of course, is never something wonderful inner state when the end of the first day the cruise visits a feeling of "lightness of being, and with each subsequent day gradually increasing.
Our route was: Regensburg, Passau, Melk, Krems Vienna. The first two German cities, on Austria. Broad layer of the tourist community of Melk and Regensburg misses: here, with rare exception, are precisely those tourists who travel on the Danube by boat, aged people, respectable, not numerous. The proximity of the "light of Europe they are very attractive. Some caught up with me in a cage tourist ladies on the first day of the Clean Air headache. With unaccustomed.

Hiking

Breakfast tour there, re clave, a dinner, consisting a masterpiece of haute cuisine and noble wines, their free time on the shore of hours of contemplation on the upper deck to become a lunchtime meal under a deep sleep. About by such a straightforward scheme took place each day cruise.
Example, Regensburg. First excursion run under drizzling rain (thanks to the cabin, I found an umbrella) on the streets is not the youngest city in Europe. When the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in 179 AD. er. decided to choose this place for a military base, called him "Castra Regina". Since then much water has flown down the Danube, many of which has sunk into oblivion, but the Bavarians kept with ancient and willing to share them with visitors.
Smooth cobbled streets of German and Austrian cities, the absence of dirt and debris inspire confidence in the future. This impression is reinforced by the lack of crowds and bustle, and the presence of almost no toxic air vehicles.
Near the Stone Bridge, the oldest extant in Germany, in the tavern Wurstkuchl we tasted the beer and sausages. Served there drinking and food deserve the same accolades as the Germans. In a small Passau, for example, has five breweries, but hard to find at least one person had moved considerably. Finally, the trivial photographed against the backdrop of a three-nave of the Cathedral of St.. Peter and happy tourists returned to the ship ...

evenings for those "who are over ..."

; However, this is a short description not the most conventional of the day: the night on board was to take place the traditional Captain's cocktail party. To appear at such an event can, of course, in jeans and a T-shirt. But things always come in costume (women in evening dresses).
General, river boats are divided into three categories: standard, premium and de luxe. Provided by Sea Cloud Cruises is a tour de luxe: cabins and restaurants correspond to five stars. A match and a contingent of traveling is the policy of cruise companies are middle-and senior-aged and elderly people without children and grandchildren. Plus, these tourists, who in principle are not interested in night life on the banks of the Danube. These people prefer monahovbenediktintsev Abbey of Melk, or Baroque ST. Stephan in Passau. In the latter, incidentally, is the world's largest church organ (231 register, 173 888 tubes). Besides low places on the local banks and razdva obchelsya. Therefore, those who are interested in bars and discotheques, you should not miss the opportunity to be there.
In short, a typical contingent River Cloud II, even in Vienna, much more prone to amuse the audience stopping than the combined Regensburg, Passau, Melk and Krems, prefers evening, after a hike "the footsteps of the great composers and musicians, to go wherever you think? Sure, the Vienna State Opera!

jogging in Vienna

However, there is a limit. Limited in the Austrian capital alone trips "to the great composers and musicians' profligacy. Even if parking in Vienna last only one day.
Hour and a half will need to ensure that the average walking speed doshagat to "Stefanplats" Rayhsbryuke from the bridge, where the moor (with a probability) the ship. You can certainly get there by subway a few stops. But, believe me, is to pass blocks with the social houses, the Prater with one of the symbols of Vienna's Ferris wheel, a bridge over the Danube Canal, past the wine restaurant with folk singer Augustine was once written and first performed the song "Ah, my dear Augustine! . Otherwise you risk to leave Vienna, was not assessed, with some ease, releasing the steering wheel, can ride a bicycle other already exchange the seventh decade Frau.
Again admire the Cathedral of St. . Stephen, on the pedestrian Stra