It is 10pm on Christmas Day and objective achieved. We got snow on Christmas Day. It would have been nice if it started 3 days ago but we will take what we can get. We arrived here about 7pm on Monday night and were picked up at the train station for the 2min drive to the hotel (which was nice not having to lug the baggage). Our room feels like a mini apartment, all it is missing is the kitchen. I said to mum I feel like we are walking down the hallway and off to...

Well we were only in Salzburg for about of a total of 52hrs (including sleep time) but we fit in as much as we could in that time. Currently sitting on the train to Seefeld where we will be having a lovely 4 nights over Christmas. Out the window is mountain peak after mountain peak, some with snow and the sun is setting (although it is only 4.30pm) leaving streaks of pink amongst the clouds. On Saturday morning, we caught a 7am train out of Budapest. It was a 5...

Did I say last night was the biggest piece of schnitzel I've seen. Tonight's definitely topped it. It was one big piece, about the size of an 8" pizza. Huge, but good!! This morning we got the train back to Melk (we had passed it on the river cruise). I had been told it wasn't too be missed. It is apparently the most famous Abbey in Austria and still has monks living here. It is a Benedictine Abbey, dating back to 1069. It has been destroyed by fire some time in...

So after I signed off the other day, I actually took myself off to the fitness room for a workout. Had a rower, bike, x-trainer and treadmill. Had to justify the lugging of my sneakers all this way. It did feel good I must admit. We then got ready for our early dinner as we had to be on the buses at 7.15pm to head off to our classical concert. We were taken to Stift Klosterneuburg, a beautiful monastery where we had our concert just for Uniworld. They played Moza...

So it's about 4pm on Saturday afternoon and we are cruising the last part of the Danube (for our trip anyway) to Vienna. Yesterday and today we have finally been able to experience what a river cruise is meant to be like. We set off from Passau yesterday morning at 6am. Mum had gone to bed rather early so she was wide awake at 6am and headed up to the lounge. Luckily I was able to fall back asleep to just before 8am. After breakfast spent most of the morning up ...