After months of preparation Wednesday 19 April 2017 finally arrived. We were off on our first River Cruise – on The Danube.
And so the final day of a wonderful holiday in E. Europe has arrived and it turned out to be very special.
Our trip to Eastern Europe was coming to an end. After Berlin we were to have 2 days in Frankfurt from where we would catch our plane for home.
Our first day in Berlin was about exploring and reading about so many depressing historical happenings so on our 2nd day we took the Underground back to the main station and walked to the Alexanderplatz. The tower of the Berlin Palace with sculptures This is situated in the most central…
As I said in my previous blog, we ended our first day of discovering Berlin at The Topography of Terror Museum. This was one of the most heart-breaking and shocking places I have visited outside of South Africa.
Believe it or not, the train trip to Berlin took 30mins more than expected due to, you guessed it, work on the track.
We boarded our train for Prague at Budapest main station at 11:20 and once again we experienced a number of delays for repairing of the tracks. This time we stayed on the train but arrived in Prague at 18:50 instead of 17:55.
SOME ADVICE FROM OUR EXPERIENCE WHEN MAKING HOTEL BOOKINGS
We left Zagreb by train on our way to Budapest and this proved to be quite an energetic escapade. The rail lines between the 2 cities were being relaid and so our trip consisted of:
On arrival in Zagreb, we had about 3 hours before dinner so went for a walk around the area near our hotel.