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Videos from my phone
As I may have mentioned, the internet on the ship was really slow. I used my Airalo eSIM to transfer pictures, but didn’t want to use up data for videos. Now that we have good internet access, I can share some of the videos I took.
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Thursday May 30 in transit to Interlaken
Breakfast and a hurry to get packed up and out of our rooms before 8:30, but then we sat in the lounge waiting for our turn to leave. We left for the airport at 11:20 and seemed to take the very long way round to get out of the city. We arrived at the airport…
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Feed the phone!
Of course the food on the ship was wonderful! One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Wolf Lunch at Yantra Grand Hotel Typical Bulgarian dinner Dinner on the ship were some Serbian selections Lunch at Nadia’s home in Croatia Our farewell dinner included Hungarian selections
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Emerald Luna and Our Cabin
The Emerald Luna was built in 2021 in Holland. It is 443 feet long, 36 feet wide and currently has 164 passengers and 50 crew members. I asked the Hotel Manager whether we were on a ship or a boat and the answer is both. Apparently you can put a boat on a ship, but…
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Wednesday May 29 Kalosca, Hungary
We met for breakfast at 7:30 and then had to be ready to go at 9am. This itinerary is like going to work! – Gary D Our guide for the day was Susan. We had a 20 minute ride to the 12th century town of Kalosca (Kal-oocha) which is the oldest in Hungary. Turks destroyed…
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May 28 Vukovar – Osijek, Croatia
We met for breakfast at 8 and then attended the disembarkation talk in the lounge. We had a few minutes to relax before boarding the bus and leaving at 10. Our guide was Biljana (bee-Yana). Again, we got information on the complicated history of another Eastern European country. We are now in the eastern part…
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Belgrade, Serbia May 27
We arrived to Belgrade around 6:45am and were rafted to Emerald Destiny, which was headed to Bucharest. It felt like Belgrade was the biggest city we had been docked in yet. We were ready to go at 9 this morning. There were 16 of us on the bike tour. We walked through the Emerald Destiny…
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Sunday May 26 Serbia
I woke up at 6 and remembered we were passing through a lock so I hurriedly dressed and went to the top deck. This was a series of two locks; Iron Gate 1, the largest lock on the Danube river. The captain was standing on the starboard side monitoring how close we were to the…
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Vidin Bulgaria, Saturday May 25
We met for breakfast at 8 and were ready to board the bus for our tour at 9:30. Our guide was Sashka. She said the typical monthly salary is about €800. The Bulgarian way to say cheers is Nastrovia. We passed a few interesting sites on the bus, but I never did get back to…
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May 24 Rousse for Veliko Tarnovo
Our guide was Ellie for our first stop in Northern Bulgaria. We left the ship at 10:30 and learned a lot about Bulgaria during the 2 1/2 hour drive. We drove through the heavily treed, Bulgarian countryside broken up by large fields of wheat, corn, sunflowers. I think she said the farming is done under…
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Enchantment of Eastern Europe 