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About Tim and Joanne Joseph

Hi and welcome! We are Tim and Joanne Joseph and we have just embarked on our latest adventure. We hope you will join us!

We start the day in Austria and end it in Germany

Thursday April 24th –  Celebrating our 22nd anniversary with an optional full day trip to Salzburg. I got behind in writing my blog with lousy Internet service here on the boat.  Some of the days have run together for me … Continue reading →

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Austria ~ Dürnstein, Wachau Valley, Melk

Wednesday April 23rd ~ Austria – Another very long and scenic day… Dürnstein Now we are talking!  This was one of the first places that we have fallen in love with as soon as we walked off the boat.  A tiny … Continue reading →

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Vienna, Austria ~ City Tour, Schönbrunn Palace, Viennese Classical Concert

Tuesday April 22 ~Vienna, Austria Vienna is the capital and largest city in Austria.  Known locally as Wien, it has a population of approximately 1.75 million people.  The city center has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When … Continue reading →

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Bratislava, Slovakia ~ charmed and amused us

Monday April 21st, Bratislava, Slovakia Slovakia became Europe’s youngest country when they gained their independence from the Czech Republic in 1993. Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia, has a population of just under 1/2 a million people and is their … Continue reading →

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Going through a lock on a river boat

Monday April 21st – Danube River Lock Transit Going through the lock system on a river boat is quite interesting.  I took several pictures (because that is what I do (big grin)) to show the procedure.  It had started to … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Music ~ A tour of our river boat

Sunday, April 20th, Danube River Cruise I have been looking forward to our river cruise for weeks.  We have only taken one other river cruise and that was about 5-6 years ago.  We went from Moscow to St. Petersburg.  I … Continue reading →

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Saying viszontlátásra to Budapest and jó napot to our Danube Cruise

Sunday April 20, Budapest, Hungary ~ Happy Easter! The rest of our time in Budapest was pretty low-keyed.  We did a fair bit of walking on Citadel Hill which affords a magnificent view over the Danube.  It is also where you … Continue reading →

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Budapest ~ Home of goulash, paprika and five UNESCO sites

Thursday April 17th, Budapest, Hungary We are starting to feel more and more like travelers and not just tourists.  Yesterday was a travel day flying on Ryan Air from Barcelona to Budapest.  We walked from our apartment in the Barri … Continue reading →

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Colonia Guëll, Gaudi Crypt and Montserrat

Tuesday April 15, Montserrat Income tax day in the USA.  Normally I’m a procrastinater, but due to our traveling schedule we were forced to plan ahead and we got our taxes done before leaving in March. It was quite nice … Continue reading →

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Barcelona ~ Two UNESCO World Heritage sites in one day.

Monday April 14th, Barcelona This was our last full day in Barcelona and we still had a couple of major sites we wanted to get to.  One was a music museum and the other a hospital, both designed by the … Continue reading →

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