Passau

Thursday, must be Passau
Wow, time is going so quickly 😂.   We couldn't dock in Passau because we were a day early so we are docked 10  minutes away in Lindorff  (I think).  We are shuttled to and from the boat.  They will take us to town for our tour and then bring us back for a Bavarian lunch.
Passau is a picturesque little town at the confluence of the Danube,  Ilz and Inn rivers. Three waters are different colours so you can tell them apart. The Romans built a fortress here in 80AD and we were able to see Roman remains.

  We toured the old town which is quite romantic and  historic, as they all are. We visited we visited St Stephens church and if we want the history we can look it up on the internet. We saw Johann Kepler's house.  He calculated  the eliptical orbits of the planets. Now that's an achievement!

Kepler's house 2nd from right

We could take a bus back to the boat for lunch but we opted to stay in town so after our tour we had lunch in a Italian sidewalk cafe. The waiter was a feisty little Italian guy who thought he could whistle.  He couldn't seem to find the tune but let a pretty girl go by and he could manage a pretty passable wolf whistle.   If the girl was extra hot he rang a bell.  We walked by later but the bell didn't ring??
Now, what to do we have three options.  The Roman Museum? Too far away.  The castle?  Same problem.  Not enough time.  So we are going to the glass museum.  It turns out we need at least an hour to see it all and we don't have that long.  Okay, we will see what we can.  It's 5 or 6 floors in an old castle and each and every one of them has 6, 8 or more rooms.  Sometimes you have to twist and turn to find them all.   Beautiful glass. The oldest at the top level where we are told to start.  There is a problem - we know nothing about glass and almost all descriptions are  in German.  Oh, that's pretty was about the extent of our commentary.   We did find some glass that is like the pitchers my parents we given as a wedding gift and that caused a little excitement.

Ice cream on the way back to the boat made us feel better and cooler.  It was a very hot day.  In the 30's.
Back at the boat we followed what has become our daily routine. Shower, wash out a few things, download pictures and blog if there is time then off to happy hour followed by Tony's Port talk and dinner.  We finished dinner we went to the lounge to hear some rock and roll with Thorsten.  We have made our travel friends and more about them later but for now I will introduce them.   Barbara and Ron from the United States, Kay and Jeff from Sydney, Australia.
Thorsten was singing when we arrived and to my ears, murdering the song.  Somehow our ears became accustomed to his singing and before long we were up dancing - at least Barbara, Roy and I were.  It was lots of fun and by now we know quite a few people. Don and Patricia  (Australia ) dance as though they went to the same school of dance we did and are having as much fun as we are.  Roy and I were the first to actually jive and sort of had the center floor for a bit. It was a bit odd to be watched but fortunately didn't last.  Just as we we leaving a new song began and Barbara wanted to dance again.  I went along but as I got on the floor I realized it wasn't a song I could dance to.  GG was the only other person on the floor. ( Guess  I'd better tell you about GG.  She is 5 foot 8 without her heels and she always wears heels, has a  beautifull statuesque figure, is black,  and has her hair in the finest, teeny tiny braids I have ever seen (and there are lots of them!).  GG also has the most outgoing personality.  She is very thoughtful and kind to everyone.  I became Ms Linda and I am very happy to say that we got on well and I felt she liked me.  GG was travelling with a neighbor who was somewhat handicapped in his mobility and speech but was a very nice fellow and was very protective of GG.  His mother died earlier and GG was looking out for him.  Pretty nice.  GG does Lady GaGa's makeup.  How about that!)
Anyway, I turned to walk off the dance floor and felt hands on my hips, GG is pulling me back on the dance floor and there is no getting out of it. GG, Barbara and I did some sort of dance together with lots of under arm twirls and spins.  It was so much fun!  I don't know what the onlookers thought but at that moment we didn't care.  We were dancing.   There was applause at the end and I'm sure it was for our audacity not our skill. Either way it was okay.
That was our day...