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@steamboats thanks, looks like some parts are flooding. Not good.

When we sailed the Rhine, we were looking forward to meeting fellow guests. We went into dinner the first night, chose one of the tables for 6 and sat beside the window. Another couple came and joined us, but sat at the other end. It was great, we got to meet them, but also felt as if we were on our own....and I think we had more space between us than a regular 2 seater. We sat at the same table almost every meal, and it became a joke as we would go to eat, and someone would be sitting there. We'd go to look for another table, but no, they wanted to meet us, so they rushed to get there first! The only time we had a "runner" was the last night, as we were looking for one of the tables for 8. There were 3, 2 round ones that were taken regularly by a large group from the Philippines, and one other. We had to have someone stationed to get the other one that night.

Sorry @MisterBill99, missed your post!

Avalon has tables for 2, however you will be sitting quite close to the next table. If you wish to see how many, and what they look like, you can do a virtual tour of the ships. There are several, they run on the "inside" areas on both sides of the dining room. Here's a screen shot for you :

Hearing from someone on an Avalon cruise right now, they were to disembark in Vilshofen, but turning around and going to Engelhartszell. They were in Passau today and they were preparing for flooding. I want rain, but not *that* much! @steamboats, hope you and all manage to stay dry.

@steamboats, sorry, but I'm glad you are getting lots of rain...we sail on the 19th from Budapest, and so are really hoping we make it to Nuremburg. If we have to bus, we have to bus, but it would be nice to stay on the river. I also have been watching the weather over there, and yeah, I see your temps. We also don't have A/C, and have had temps in the 30's for 3 months. This weekend is the first time we have had the windows open for more than 1/2 day. We are finding out just how noisy all the birds, squirrels and chipmunks are..... 🙂

That's the problem with tourism.. tourists spend money, good for shops & restaurants, but makes the lives of those who have to live everyday in the towns a headache. Yes, on the rivers, you get a couple of boatloads in at once, but they leave in a couple of hours. We have towns here that triple their population through tourism in the summer months (and mostly a lot of extra vehicles on the roads that crowd transit), and then nothing. Some areas survive just on the 4 months of "tourist season", but for living in the area it's a pain.

We are looking forward to the trip to the Weltenburg Abbey. I found the "draft" beer for our cruise at our local liquor store, but unfortunately, no Weltenburg.

My kind of plans. 🙂

If you didn't get a night time cruise, take one of them.

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Well, I've played with this all day....finally figured it out! I can write it up in my Docs app, including pictures. Copy the text before the photo, then the photo, then continue with the text. I hope this works, we'll find out in Sept. 🙂 Got the e-tickets & e-docs the other day, my app is up and running...this is finally, after all the re-scheduling and cancellations going to happen!

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Help please... I am trying to get ready to do a "live" review of our up coming cruise and can't seem to figure out how to write it up, and then open the file here. I have Google Docs, but that seems to want me to download the file when I upload it, and I'm sure no-one will wish to do that. I have an iPad Air5, and will be using the Avalon Go app, but it saves a link to my notes. I'm not the best with 1 finger typing, so will appreciate having a file to upload. Anyone have ideas? I don't want the Office 365, as I purchased a licensed copy of Office just before they started that, so really don't need a 2nd subscription, which I would need to get if I d/l word on my tablet. Thanks.

Sorry your trip ended the way it did, but glad that you had such a great CD. It always amazes me how much they go above and beyond in their “duties “, especially considering that they have all of the passengers to assist.

Tirty tre sounds more like a take off of French trying English, even now, I have trouble saying my “h”’s. This would come out more like “dirty tre”, especially if I’ve had a few beers. 🙂

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Great review, we did our first cruise on the Rhine, Amsterdam to Basel. The only thing I regretted (and it was a time problem, as we were both working and couldn't get the extra time off) was we didn't do the Lucerne extension. As Roz says, Amsterdam is a great city to start, easy to do on your own with planning so you don't rush in to seeing "everything" We will be doing Budapest to Nuremburg next month on Avalon, with a couple extra days added on to go to Prague. Basically the same route you took, so I appreciated your thoughts.

Love the 2CV's (or Deux CV (pronounced SayVay) here). I'll have to bookmark that idea for when we do a Paris cruise. I am putting that one off...DH would love to see Paris, I'm not a city lover. 🙂