I posted this for some minutes in the Mississippi thread. Decided to open a new one. Open for your remarks - in the tradition of MT - and your questions.
I hope that our other European members a ready to cooperate.
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MrBrown wrote:I was seriously looking at taking a cruise down the Danube, float from Bavaria through Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania.....guess that's way too risky.
Maybe I'll go to Espana or Greece instead....they end in vowels, but the exchange rates look pretty juicy. They are hard up for tourists to come back.
If this
http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... 35&act=url
http://www.flusskreuzfahrten-urlaub.de/ ... delta-1535
is too dangerous for you, you better stay in bed for the rest of your life (seriously, there were some problems with too much ice by the end of the winter, but no security problems. Any Carribean cruise is tenfold more dangerous. In the end - if she ship sinks you can swim to shore !)
I don't think Mr. Brown was being serious. I think that was probably a tongue-in-cheek response to the earlier poster who had suggested that it's dangerous to go to any country that ends in either a vowel or -stan.