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Cruising Danube Through `Tinder Box of Balkans’
My column was missing from the Daily Eagle last week because Verena and I were away on a historical River Danube cruise, boating hundreds of miles from Belgrade up to Vienna. It was sort of a birthday gift — Verena weighed all options and decided we should travel through Costco, which resulted in the best vacation we’ve ever had. This cruise focused on Eastern Europe where many wars have been ignited—the most recent conflict being the 1990s bombing and “cleansing” onslaughts following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
We arrived in Vienna aboard The River Ambassador, a lush, sleek Uniworld cruise ship, which we boarded six days earlier in Belgrade, Serbia.