Enjoy this trip along a small section of the Austrian/German Danube brought to us by tnsilnl. Beautiful images accompanied by the Blue Danube from Strauss.
Having posted the occasional article here, tracing the river Danube from its source in Germany to the Black Sea, it was nice to learn that a team of Kayakers, twin sisters Chrissy and Eve Conyers, with their friends Wayne and Josh, are setting out on June 26 from Regensburg, Germany, to paddle about 2500 km to the Romanian estuary.
The group are using the trip to raise money for the children of CanTeen, who have grown up living with cancer. The girls have been members of CanTeen throughout their childhood because their brother, Adrian has been battling with a brain tumor. CanTeen is an Australian support organisation for young people (aged 12-24) that are living with the disruption of cancer; this includes ot only the cancer patients themselves, but their brothers and sisters and also young people with parents or primary carers with cancer.
German football fans are now heading to Vienna for the Euro 2008 final, so they have chosen a particularly exciting time for their adventure. Let's wish Team Kayak luck and if you are able to support them with a sposorship donation, go to Eveyday Hero, where you will be able to make a donation and enable them to 'Raise More Than a Sweat for CanTeen'.
Euro 2008 kicks off next Saturday, 7 June, with the news that every ticket for the 31 matches, being played in Austria and Switzerland, has been sold; a total of 1.05 million tickets. However, there will of course be massive television coverage and the Euro 2008 website has all the latest news, complete with photos and videos.
The final will be held at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, on 29 June.
One of the world's greatest and most important arts festivals, the Salzburg Festival, begins its 2007 season on Friday 27 July and runs through to 31 August, 2007. Being the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, it is not surprising that the festival is best known for hill to hill music, listen carefully and you might hear Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp children, but the festival also has a notable drama section and this year includes a new and innovative production of Ein Sommernachtstraum (Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's dream).
It is easy to travel to Salzburg from the rest of Europe and there is much to see and do in this charming Austrian city famous for its baroque architecture and breathtaking mountain scenery. more
