Less than a month to go and we will be off to Europe once again, to embark on one of Vikings newest longboats, the Njord. We will be cruising from Passau Germany to Budapest Hungary, and staying in Budapest for a couple of days after the cruise is over.

During the cruise, will be visit Passau, Linz, Salzburg, Melk, Durnstein, Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest.Depending on how the internet access on board, I will try and post a daily update of our thoughts and discuss what we did for that day.

We will be flying out of Dulles Airport in Washington DC direct to Munich, and then taking Vikings transfer to Passau which is about a two hour ride. We anticipate arriving at the boat around 3pm, so our cabin should be ready and we can get unpacked and rest a little before dinner at 7pm. We are in cabin 116, down on the lowest deck. We usually do book cabins there as we have found them to be somewhat quieter than the upper decks, and really do not mind having a smaller window and no balcony. We do not spend that much time in the cabin anyway so it really does not matter to us.

This will be our fourth cruise with Viking cruise line and the first on one of their new longboats, so are quite excited to see what they are like. I will most likely do at least one more post prior to our departure, so until later,

CHEERS!