A long held opinion that I reached years ago is that one needs to spend at least a couple of weeks in a place to start to understand it. This trip bore that out. While the time on the boat was great to get a snapshot of a dozen places, it was only that. And since we were looking to relax and watch the world slide by, A snapshot was perfect.
The end of the trip was a couple of days each in Vienna, Budapest and Prague. Because Vienna is huge we never really got a chance to experience it. We did enjoy what we did but we were left with the feeling that we missed more than we saw.
Budapest wasn't as overwhelming and our experiences seemed to be more representative of the city. That lead us to like it better in comparison.
We got the impression that Prague was the smallest of the three and we grew to figure it out a little bit. At least part of that was because we met more people that spoke some amount of English.
By the way, I ate like a king. I ate everything I wanted and as much as I wanted and I lost 7 pounds. I should write a book and call it "European River Cruise Diet".
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