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 We will remember Bratislava for it’s life size bronze  statues. One of the statues is a worker crawling out of a man hole.The one on the left is the actual statue and the one on the right is an enterprising “street artist” who is copying the…

Le rêve at rest in Bratislava at “Marina Dodo. We will not forget the people in Marina Dodo!!!Looking down the Danube from the castle grounds.

In Bratislava we docked at the Dodo Zsoldos yacht harbor and were greeted by Eliska and her doughter Andrea and her son Robert. Of course we had to try some of the local Snaps!!! 

Just a few km past Vienna we passed through the 15th lock in the Danube. Only three more to go to the Black sea.Our cruise from Vienna to Bratislava was with overcast skies and rain off and on.  This lock was challenging in that it was extremely w…

 some  pictures of Vienna.We biked into Vienna and toured the sights by foot.It was nice to visit, but after a day we both had enough. One of the streets with the”high end” stores. Its not unusual to see two security guards in front of one store

 WE biked from our marina in Spiz to Dürnstein the most visited village in the Wachau area.The region is a small wine producing area with “Grüner veltliner” (a white wine) being the most common. About 10 % of their production is a red wine from …

Once through the lock at Melk and on our way to Spiz the scenery gets very interesting.  We start to see more vineyards and realize the people we talked to at the lock were right and we should stop and explore this region. 

We left from Linz early (early for us) and did not know how far we would get that day. The weather was gorgeous and the scenery no less gorgeous  than the weather. Because of the very fast current we traveled 100 km and got to the  4th locks …

Countryside overlooking the city of LinzOttensheim Castle

The City of Linz is just 5 km past the lock at OttensheimWe had to wait our turn. There were a couple of large commercial ships in the lock