Arrived in Passau at approximately 1130 hours after a 2.5 h bus ride. The ride was very pleasant and the country side is beautiful.
Passau:
Passau, a German city on the Austrian border, lies at the confluence of the Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers. Known as the Three Rivers City, it is overlooked by the Veste Oberhaus, a 13th-century hilltop fortress housing a city museum and observation tower. The old town below is known for its baroque architecture, including St. Stephen's Cathedral, featuring distinctive onion-domed towers and an organ with 17,974 pipes.
Our guide was very good, once again. The tour was about 1.5 hours long and took us through the history of the town and showed us some of the many churches ending up at the beautiful Baroque cathedral St. Stephens. Earlier in the day we listened to a very nice organ concert in the cathedral.
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| Our bus trip from Nuremburg took 2.5 hours as it passed through beautiful rolling hills and lush forest and farmland. |
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| Two viking ships moored in the Inn River. The one on the inside is the Bestla. |
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| Passau has many churches (46) and you are looking at the towers of one of them. |
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| We stopped in at a cafe and had a beer. |
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| Walking down the streets of the city. |
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| Some figurines in a shop window in Passau |
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| Puppets in a shop window. |
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| St. Stephens Cathedral is a baroque church designed by Italians and built from 1668-1693. It is the home of the largest cathedral pipe organ in the world with 17,000 + pipes. |
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| St. Stephens from the middle of the Domplatz. |
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| The interior of St. Stephens as we wait for the organ concert to begin. |
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| One part of the 17,000+ pipe organ. There are five sections scattered around the cathedral and they can all be controlled from one central keyboard. |
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| Silhouette of Passau as we depart towards Melk in Austria. |
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| Passau in the evening. |
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| Departing Passau as we are still in the Inn river. |
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| The Danube toward dusk on our way to Melk. We are in the middle of the river so that you can imagine how wide the river is. |
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| The department heads of the Bestla that were replaced by the crew of the wrecked Bragi. We were not sure what to make of the fact that the captain and the chief engineer pictures were missing???? |
A couple of the Entrees and a desert from dinner last night.
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| Dinner of tofu stroganoff. |
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| Sauteed Halibut |
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| Some sort of chocolate desert |
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