Linz and beyond – 4th week of October 2003

Posted on October 31, 2003 ·

We slept along the Danube on Sunday night, a beautiful mountainous stretch that glittered with the reds, oranges, and purples of Fall. The river was very green. Wasn’t it Strauss that immortalized the Danube in his waltz “The Blue Danube”? Blue? I don’t know what he was thinking. The path along the river was remarkably […]

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Towards Passau and the Austrian border – end of October 2003

Posted on October 30, 2003 ·

Towards Passau We left Munich under overcast skies and headed east towards the Austrian border. It took us three days. A strong wind was against us the first day, but the terrain was flat. We started the day on a dirt bike path in the woods bordering the Isar River. As the day progressed, we […]

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Post – Oktoberfest Munich

Posted on October 27, 2003 ·

Oktoberfest is sadly over, and the city is returning to normal. The campground, too. It started to clear out Sunday, when a lot of people left to drive or fly back to Berlin or Rome or London. The festival ended Sunday night, and by Monday evening, there were only a handful of tents left. By […]

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Oktoberfest in Munich

Posted on October 1, 2003 ·

Oktoberfest started September 19th and we were anxious to make it to Munich to catch the festivities before they finished October 5th. We arrived Thursday night, in time for the last couple of days. Talk about a party! Each year, this most famous of all beerfests welcomes 6.5 million party-goers and beer drinkers from all […]

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