Regensburg, Germany and the Danube gorge

Well, another fine day in Bavaria. We started with our traditional champagne breakfast. Chef Krum, once again, made an excellent omelette.

Regensburg is called a Bavarian Treasure as it has 1,300 listed buildings of historical sights. No, we will not be visiting and showing pictures of all of these sights.
The old city of Regensburg has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
So we may have a picture or two later.

First we headed out on the Danube Gorge tour. The gorge is the original way to continue on the Danube. The river narrows and the bridges are lower in this area. A canal was built to transport the large river ships.

We went on a smaller boat up the gorge to see what things were like on the original Danube River.
This picture shows part of the river.

Up river we stopped at the Weltenberg Abbey which apparently has the oldest brewery in Europe.
The monks at the Abbey have been making beer since 1050 AD. One would expect they have perfected it by now. Well, guess what, they have. We received a complimentary beer and pretzel while we were there. The good news is Dan and Joe got double beers as the girls are more wine drinkers.
This is us having the free beer.

Looks like a fun group except Joe was not there. He was either taking the picture or in the washroom from having too many beers.

Back to our bus and we had to navigate our way through a herd of wild sheep as you can see.

Once safely on board the bus we headed back to the ship for a well earned lunch.
Our lunch was grilled burgers and salads on the sunset deck. Excellent meal considering you cannot barbeque or barby (or as our Aussie and Kiwi friends on board say)
It was a very good lunch as you can see by the 4 satisfied diners' look.

After lunch some of us (Joe) headed into Regensburg for a walking tour of the old city.
The pictures below are of those streets and sort of mirror the streets in the other cities in Austria and Germany.

We (Joe) had a voucher for a plate of sausage and sauerkraut and of course a beer at a place called the sausage house.

While we were checking the shops in Regensburg we found a store selling lederhosen pants for men. We had to talk our friend John out of buying a pair. His wife Robyn was all for it.
Good move John to say NO.

Back on the ship we had a couple of local ladies (Hannah and Heidi) come aboard for beer tasting. They brought samples of 4 types of Bavarian Beer for us to sample. Again, good news for Dan and Joe as we got double samples.

After dinner we were entertained by a one man Bavarian Band.
His name was Humpapa Hansi and he was terrific. You can probably tell by his outfit the type of music he played, but he also got the whole audience involved as you can see.

You are probably wondering what the word of the day is today. We were as well.
With all the beer produced in Bavaria (and some good wine as well) we decided on "libation".

A full day of festivities that has worn us out. Time for bed to be ready for another exciting day on the Danube.
Tomorrow we go through the Main-Danube Canal on our way to Nuremberg, Germany.
Stat tuned for the excitement.