All towns so far have a pedestrian only area in the center of town with shops, restaurants and cafes, and it's wonderful. Many have fresh produce markets and the produce is very good. People are milling all around on their way to or from errands, or eating ice cream or just sitting around. We really like this and stop everywhere to soak up this experience since it's much harder to find in the USA.
Linz has at least three churches and we visited them all. There were lots of high end shops, too, and we didn't visit any of them! Here is one of the pictures I got in Linz; these are life size glass or plastic figures atop an arch in the town square. The other picture is also of the top of a statue in the town square.
Ten minutes are up. Time for cocktail hour on board the Viking Primadonna.
This is the first of many happy travels. Regardless of where we go, we plan to enjoy the culture and experience life as locals...hopefully. Actually, it's really not the first of our happy travels, but it is the first time we've tried to communicate, inform and hopefully entertain anyone except ourselves with our travel adventures. We hope you will enjoy.
Here we go!
On June 10th we depart for a two week cruise on the Danube River, starting in Germany and ending in Romania. We travel through twelve countries and visit 22 cities before we disembark. We are then on our own cross country via train to the Black Sea, Macedonia and northern Greece (Thessaloniki, Kavala and the island of Thasos. After that little jaunt we will spend the rest of our stay with Kathy's family in Athens.

I remember Linz. I spent a lunchtime there on my way to Munich. Beautiful town!
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