December 22 - Passau

Everyone in the group headed out for an all-day tour to Salzburg, Austria.  Except for us.  We had visited Salzburg with Mary’s mom a few years back and had spent several days there.  On our previous Danube River cruise we had also toured Passau so we decided to just do visit the Passau Christmas Market on our own. 

Photos of Passau.

It was very close to the river, so we ended up being out for only an hour or so.  The market was in the large square in front of St. Stephen’s Church. 

The market was pretty small.  We did buy some Christmas ornaments for all the grandchildren. 

And we had Chimney Cakes.  These originated in Transylvania.  They are long strips of yeast dough wrapped around something resembling a rolling pin.  The dough is then baked and then rolled in the topping of your choice.  We picked vanilla sugar.  The Chimney Cakes are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.  And very yummy.

We had a light lunch in the lounge and spent quite a while
visiting with Fred from New Jersey. 

The afternoon was spent sailing to Linz.  The Salzburg tour will return to the boat there.  The cruise down this section of the Danube was beautiful in places.  But the weather wasn’t so great and we had some rain and a lot of fog/low lying clouds. 

We spent some time on photos and submitted a number of photos for the ship’s photo contest.  We will see how we do.  Categories are prettiest and funniest.