Bert Hyman

I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
southern Europe caught me by surprise.

We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
anybody have current info, or a source for it?

Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take
our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually
get us there.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | [email protected]

Keith W

"Bert Hyman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    >I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    > years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    > southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    > We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    > while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    > anybody have current info, or a source for it?

http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=danu...en&sa=N&tab=wn


Keith



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Ulf Kutzner

Bert Hyman schrieb:
    > I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    > years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    > southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    >
    > We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    > while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    > anybody have current info, or a source for it?
    >
    > Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take
    > our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually
    > get us there.

The airports of Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt will not be flooded. There will
be high water at Regensburg/Passau and more locations on the Danube.
http://www.welt.de/data/2004/01/14/223203.html

There seem to be fewer problems on the Rhine. Flying to and starting
from Amsterdam will take a while, so most problems on the Danube might
be gone before your arrival, besides damaged buildings.

Regards, ULF

Ingeborg Denner

"Bert Hyman" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
    >I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    > years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    > southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    > We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    > while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    > anybody have current info, or a source for it?

This source is in German, but as it's mostly names, numbers and
graphics, it's pretty self-explanatory.

Water levels, listed from upriver to downriver:
(the pale green line means: higher than that -> no ships.)

Danube:
<http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=DONAU>.
High and rising.

Rhine:
<http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=RHEIN>
. Upriver high, but falling, Mid- and Lowriver low, but
rising. Doesn't seem to be rising to problematic levels, though. (The
red dots are projections for the next day.)

Main:
<http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=MAIN>.
Low, stable.

Main-Danube channel:
<http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=MDK>.
Medium low, stable.


You can look up places here:
<http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/Karte/index.html>

hth,

inge

Bert Hyman

[email protected] (Ingeborg Denner) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > This source is in German, but as it's mostly names, numbers and
    > graphics, it's pretty self-explanatory.

Thanks! An excellent source of information on another situation I
can't do anything about!

As I said, something to take my mind off of worrying about the
Northwest Airlines mechanic's strike :-)

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | [email protected]

Bert Hyman

[email protected] (Ulf Kutzner) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > The airports of Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt will not be flooded. There
    > will be high water at Regensburg/Passau and more locations on the
    > Danube. http://www.welt.de/data/2004/01/14/223203.html

This article appears to be from January 2004.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | [email protected]

Erilar

In article <[email protected]>, Bert Hyman
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > As I said, something to take my mind off of worrying about the
    > Northwest Airlines mechanic's strike :-)

That COULD be a problem. I quit flying NW long and long ago for other
reasons, however.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument
is that reason doesn't count. Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo

Bert Hyman

In news:[email protected] erilar
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > In article <[email protected]>, Bert Hyman
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >> As I said, something to take my mind off of worrying about the
    >> Northwest Airlines mechanic's strike :-)
    >
    > That COULD be a problem. I quit flying NW long and long ago for other
    > reasons, however.

It's almost impossible to get out of Minneapolis any other way and I've
never been seriously inconvenienced by them. But in this case the cruise
company, Uniworld, booked me on KLM, which in its North American
incarnation is Northwest.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN [email protected]

Keith Anderson

On 24 Aug 2005 13:31:24 GMT, Bert Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:

    >
    >I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    >years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    >southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    >We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    >while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    >anybody have current info, or a source for it?
    >Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take
    >our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually
    >get us there.

I worked on a Danube cruise last week (Passau - Melk - Esztergom -
Budapest - Bratislava - Vienna - Dürnstein - Passau).

The ship was due to cruise this week from Passau via the Main - Donau
Canal and the River Main to the Rhine.

Just this minute spoken to a colleague who tells me the ship is stuck
at Deggendorf, as the water level is exceptionally high and it cannot
get under the bridge there.



Keith, Bristol, UK

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Martin

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:33:43 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On 24 Aug 2005 13:31:24 GMT, Bert Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    >>years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    >>southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    >>We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    >>while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    >>anybody have current info, or a source for it?
    >>Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take
    >>our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually
    >>get us there.
    >I worked on a Danube cruise last week (Passau - Melk - Esztergom -
    >Budapest - Bratislava - Vienna - Dürnstein - Passau).
    >The ship was due to cruise this week from Passau via the Main - Donau
    >Canal and the River Main to the Rhine.
    >Just this minute spoken to a colleague who tells me the ship is stuck
    >at Deggendorf, as the water level is exceptionally high and it cannot
    >get under the bridge there.

Lucky it's not stuck under the bridge.

Last week there was a wonderful documentary on Dutch TV about a Dutch
cruise ship on the Rhine. All the passengers except two or three were
female OAPs. A blonde slapper helped serve the meals. The camera team
obviously got bored fairly early on and concentrated on what the
blonde slapper got up to in the evening when ashore.
Were you the guide who carried her to bed, because she was legless,
and reappeared after 5 minutes wearing her knickers on his head?
--
Martin

Ulf Kutzner

Bert Hyman schrieb:

    > [email protected] (Ulf Kutzner) wrote in
    > news:[email protected]:
    >
    >
    >>The airports of Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt will not be flooded. There
    >>will be high water at Regensburg/Passau and more locations on the
    >>Danube. http://www.welt.de/data/2004/01/14/223203.html
    >
    >
    > This article appears to be from January 2004.


Grrr/ooops. My mistake. However, I did follow radia/TV news. Big
problems at Kelheim, no major problems yet on the Rhine.

Regards, ULF

Keith Anderson

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:39:28 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:



    >Were you the guide who carried her to bed, because she was legless,
    >and reappeared after 5 minutes wearing her knickers on his head?

Chance would have been a fine, fine thing, although I prefer my ladies
sober............

Was so busy last week with a hectic excursion programme (plus a couple
of repatriations on medical grounds) that I had little time to think
about hrumpty-tumpty, despite the fact that there were some absolutely
gorgeous women working on the ship!

Maybe next time.



Keith, Bristol, UK

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Martin

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:25:40 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:39:28 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>Were you the guide who carried her to bed, because she was legless,
    >>and reappeared after 5 minutes wearing her knickers on his head?
    >Chance would have been a fine, fine thing, although I prefer my ladies
    >sober............
    >Was so busy last week with a hectic excursion programme (plus a couple
    >of repatriations on medical grounds) that I had little time to think
    >about hrumpty-tumpty, despite the fact that there were some absolutely
    >gorgeous women working on the ship!

Can't have been the same crew :-(((

Have you worked as an entertainer on cruise ships?
--
Martin

Keith Anderson

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:33:42 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:25:40 +0100, Keith Anderson
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:39:28 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>Were you the guide who carried her to bed, because she was legless,
    >>>and reappeared after 5 minutes wearing her knickers on his head?
    >>Chance would have been a fine, fine thing, although I prefer my ladies
    >>sober............
    >>Was so busy last week with a hectic excursion programme (plus a couple
    >>of repatriations on medical grounds) that I had little time to think
    >>about hrumpty-tumpty, despite the fact that there were some absolutely
    >>gorgeous women working on the ship!
    >Can't have been the same crew :-(((
    >Have you worked as an entertainer on cruise ships?

No - but on some (depending on the clientele) I do a cabaret turn on
the last night. Some risqué jokes, get 'em singing along to a Billy
Connolly song, that sort of thing. Didn't do that on the last cruise,
though (for classical music fans) as I'd have probably been about as
popular as a pork chop in Jerusalem.



Keith, Bristol, UK

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Frank F. Matthews

Keith Anderson wrote:

    > On 24 Aug 2005 13:31:24 GMT, Bert Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
    >>years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in
    >>southern Europe caught me by surprise.
    >>We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and
    >>while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does
    >>anybody have current info, or a source for it?
    >>Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take
    >>our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually
    >>get us there.
    >
    >
    > I worked on a Danube cruise last week (Passau - Melk - Esztergom -
    > Budapest - Bratislava - Vienna - Dürnstein - Passau).
    >
    > The ship was due to cruise this week from Passau via the Main - Donau
    > Canal and the River Main to the Rhine.
    >
    > Just this minute spoken to a colleague who tells me the ship is stuck
    > at Deggendorf, as the water level is exceptionally high and it cannot
    > get under the bridge there.
    >
    >
    >
    > Keith, Bristol, UK
    >
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    >


I had that happen to me a few years ago on the Danube. Fortunately the
tour company had a reciprocal cruise that was stuck on the other side of
the bridge. The tours switched boats.