After a beautiful day in Ray.gensburg, the forecast for today is less than promising. Looks like rain tops, Teflon waterproofed blue jeans and shoes will be the order of the day.
Fall travel brings some cool rainy days and smaller crowds. That makes the score two pluses to one minus, and we try to prepare for the minus.
Don’t know much about Passau so we decided to pass up Salzburg (I know what you’re thinking, but we spent some time in Salzburg a couple of years ago) and explore new territory. I’ll report this afternoon on the wisdom of our decision.
Just back from our Passau walk about. The morning rain was more of an inconvenience than a misery and we enjoyed our time in Passau. Interesting that Passau was not founded by the Romans, but the Celts. I looked up Celts and, after scrolling through all the Boston Celtic postings, I learned that the Celts of the first century, 780 AD when Passau was founded, were a collection of tribes from Central Europe and Asia but mostly located in the Hallstatt area of Austria. We visited Hallstatt just before the “lock down”. Passau is also known as the city of three rivers, I lived in the city of three rivers on a different continent a few years ago. Passau lies at the confluence of the Inn, Ilz and Danube rivers but has no stadium.
The rivers provided the means for Passau to become an influential city, and its strategic location at the beginning point of the German-Austria border, brought two powerful nations together with Passau as a bonding point. Passau, while being bombed three times in the last months of WWII, was not significantly damaged and the city center was left unscathed. St. Stephen’s Cathedral was untouched and provides a strong example of baroque style of the late seventeenth century.
We have several choices for afternoon activities and the most attractive is to position in a soft spot in the lounge and listen to a pretty good piano guy, experience the sights, and the beauty of the Danube. Jim