Sulina, Romania
Salut
So we are now at marker 0 on the Danube. Tonight we will be in the Black Sea on our way Port Tomas also in Romania. It will be an overnight passage which thrills me no end but so it goes. In Port Thomas we will put the mast back up, clear out […]
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Ruse Bulgaria 1
Oryahovo
Republica Restaurant
Tulcea, Romania
Salut
As I sit here typing I can hear the restaurant diners just next to the boat. They’re up on flybridge level so not looking in our windows or having us watch them eat. It’s 10 pm but I guess people wait for the heat to abate before going out to dinner. A […]
Vidin Bulgaria Day one
Braila, Romania
Salut = hello in Romanian
We checked out of Bulgaria and into Romania yesterday, both longer processes than elsewhere along the way. No problem, just longer waiting while everyone who needed to authorize our exit and entrance – authorized, signed and stamped everything that had to be authorized signed and stamped. Rick and Randal […]
Last night in Serbia
Hotel Drustar
Silistra, Bulgaria
добро утро dobro utro = Good Morning
We’ll spend today in Silistra mostly to stock up on “fizzy water” from the supermarket and a few other things, see about checking out of Bulgaria this afternoon (or have to wait until we leave tomorrow depending what the officials say.) Our next stop will be […]
Smederovo to Porecka Reka and beyond
Hotel Dustra
Silistra, Bulgaria
добър ден dobŭr den Good Afternoon
Randal and I explored a little of Silistra this morning, one place being the Art Museum which was WONDERFUL. Price of admission was 1 lev = $.68. The catalogue of the permanent collection with English text as well as Bulgarian text was 5 lev. I took […]
Smederevo Serbia
Hotel Drustar dock with wifi
Silistra, Bulgaria
This is my last email of the evening. We left Belgrade and stopped at Smederevo. Here’s the story. The city center is charming; the Fortress fun, the newer parts of the city hopeful, but the older parts show that the economy of Serbia is still struggling.
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Smederevo http://www.smederevowelcome.com/index.html
We arrived […]
Belgrade Morning Tour 2
Oryahovo, Bulgaria
This is part 2 of the mourning tour. I’m not so interested in fortresses or military history but it was a lovely place to walk around in and it’s a big part of Belgrade history.
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Silicon (e) Valley
Our guide asked us why we though this area was called Silicon Valley. Rick guessed it had […]
Novi Sad part 3
Vidin, Bulgaria
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We took this side road and found the open air market
It was very hot and we had a fairly long walk back to the boat so no one was in shopping mode
The two outer statuettes with their heads turned to profile were holding t…
Budapest Misc
Porecka Reka
Anchoring for the night.
This is the final Budapest email. Now I can begin to research Belgrade for the emails I’ll send. In between I’ve have two emails about Novi Sad, Serbia, our stop just before Belgrade.
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Margaret Island
Budapest’s Margaret Island was originally known as Rabbits Island. (Lots of rabbits and hunting of rabbits) […]
Budapest Jewish Quarter
Novi Sad Marina
Здраво zdravo = hello in Serbian as we’re back in Serbia having spent the past 2 nights on the southwest bank of the Danube in Vukovar, Croatia. Very sad history in both Vukovar and Novi Sad during the 90s when the Serbs bombed the Croatians and the UN bombed the Serbs. It would […]
