It was an early start to get packed with our bags outside our cabin in order to be loaded onto the buses. Still time for a final breakfast, though I always have an identical breakfast so it was not particularly special!  We all slept for a good deal of the 2.5 hour journey to Budapest.  […]

We had 2 optional excursions, both of which involved a bus ride. Pauline and I opted to do the trip to Pecs (pronounced Petch)which has a church, organ recital, world heritage archaeological site and pretty town. Mike opted to chill out on the boat.  The boat is very low in the water and we needed […]

In the morning we had an excursion to Ilok which is a rural village up on a fortress. Following a short stroll around the fortress we went to a local vineyard, Hungary’s 3rd largest, for wine tasting. As they say, it’s always wine o’clock somewhere.  The church at Ilok was nice. A Catholic Church this […]

Another beautiful sunny day and not too hot. We first had a quick bus tour of Novi Sad, which is Serbia’s second largest city and then a walk through the central town. Novi Sad was rebuilt in the late 1800s after the town was flattened by the Hungarians that were occupying the fortress across the […]

We had a morning bus and walking tour of Belgrade in the morning and free time on board in the afternoon.  Our guide in Belgrade was excellent. He had a great sense of humour, laced with irony, but was able to provide context to many of the characteristics of Serbia and the Balkans more generally.  […]