Danube riverboat cruise – Passau, Germany – Thursday, July 10, 2025

Today’s program:

This is the only port call that we hadn’t already arrived at when we woke up, so it made for a nice leisurely morning. Bob and I had been getting up at 6 or 6:30 every day, so this was nice.


Bob participated in the 10:00 Trivia with Paula activity, while I worked on my blog. Our friend Ken was the winner!

Spoiler alert: The outside

I found this trivia question most interesting:

Who are the only 3 people in the world who can travel without a passport?

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The emperor and empress of Japan & King Charles.


Neither of us participated in the Crazy Gold or the Bike Tour activities.


After lunch, I took the Walking Tour of Passau, while Bob stayed on the riverboat.

Might I remind you that we’re traveling with a group of about 40 gay men? For some queer reason, the majority of the guys in our group gravitated toward this tour guide out of the 6 guides available.

Within the first 10 minutes of the tour, the bottom fell out of the sky, and all of us were under a tree trying to keep dry. It was a fierce downpour with loud thunder, and it lasted about 10 minutes. We had a pretty view from there, though.

City scenes:

Guess how many total Scrabble points the letters of this sign add up to!

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118!

 
I was walking ahead of the rest of our BearCruise group, and when I saw this store I thought, “Oh boy. Y’all have no idea what’s about to hit you.” I knew every bear in our group would stop in it!

We checked out St. Paul’s church, and like most of the ones we’ve seen, it was elaborate.

“And, yes, I’m talking about that big-bellied schmuck right there!”

Tencalla-Garten


We participated in the Jukebox Jury activity, which was kind of a brilliant way to get people geared up for the subsequent disco dancing.

They gave us a list of 10 disco songs — which weren’t all disco songs, but songs from the “disco era” — and we had to predict which 3 songs (in order) would get the most people up on the floor dancing.

The brilliant part, of course, was that everybody wanted to get out on the dance floor when one of the songs they’d voted on was played.

Our favorite pictures are of our favorite bartender, Yuliana, when she joined in on one of the songs. It looks like she’s dancing with wild abandon!

Our friend Kayo won by getting the top 3 in the right order!

This was a fun, fun, fun night!

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