Reading this week: Sir Harry Johnston and the Scramble for Africa by Roland Oliver The second full day of our river cruise on the mighty Danube I woke up while the ship was still moving, mist-shrouded Austrian-looking buildings sliding past in the quiet morning. Very neat! Right before we entered Vienna we went through another lock. Since it wasn’t our first it was much less exciting, and we experienced it as we ate breakfast, i.e. we watched a concrete wall slowly lower (from our perspective) until we broke out into the sun. Ship operations continued to fascinate. After breakfast we went up to the sun deck again and enjoyed experiencing the ship cruise underneath low bridges, close enough to jump up and touch. In places the ship’s bridge descended even below the handrail, so we were looking down at the captain as he piloted us through. Then we were entranced by docking, followed by the crew getting the ship’s brow in place. This involved crane operations which was very fun and again…
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