Five Countries; four languages; three currencies, 7 buses, and countless checkmarks on the Bucket List. Whew what a dream!
Backup, how'd we get here again?
Oct 2 2017, aka, our wedding anniversary, it occurred to me that we were a mere two years away from our 20th. And it further occurred to me that we had not celebrated an anniversary since our 10th, when we went to Turks and Caicos for a week. See how cute we were on the beach in T&C?
It was decided unanimously (by Yours Truly) that since Jeff handled our 10th, I'd take on the challenge of arranging our 20th and btw, it will be somewhere in Europe. Lets face it, we really aren't the beach bum types. So we each wrote out our top 5 list of dream destinations. The ones we had in common were Prague and Budapest.
The very next day I was in the office of my travel agent exploring options, when I noticed a brochure for Viking River Cruises. "Y'all got any of them Viking boats going to Prague and Budapest?" Turns out the Danube Waltz was just our jam and the price was so agreeable, we decided to move up our "20th Anniversary Trip" to Nov 2018, which was technically only our 19th but What's Time to a Hog, right? Check out this kick ass itinerary.
On Oct 4, 2017, our cruise was just under fourteen months away. Plenty of time for planning and research, piece of cake!
Fast forward to around August 2018. As our dream trip approached, I began to notice grumblings in the facebookosphere. Severe Drought in Eastern and Central Europe...low water levels on the Danube...cruises canceled...cruises diverted...ship swaps...long bus detours. Trying not to panic, I began to maniacally monitor the weather in all of the five countries we were visiting. Would we arrive in Budapest only to sit on a bus for 12 days?...To be continued
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