Saturday, September 22, 2007

The Danube




Describing yourself as speechless usually means you are so awestruck that you try and try to think of an accurate word but are so struck, you are dumb to think of anything more descriptive than basic words. There are times though that you truly are speechless. You are not so awed that you can not find the words or the ability to form a sentence, you are so taken that you don't even think to speak. You simply look. What is in front of you is such ecstasy to your senses that all else (speech included) ceases to function or matter. You can not and need not speak, eat, drink, breath too if it were not an automatic recurrence of your body.

Hiroshima was horribly and the Cinque Terra fabulously like this, but to compare them to each other or the Danube would lessen each, even if only slightly, that is just enough.

I will not try and describe my cruise up the Danube; I would only ruin it. I can only post pictures later even though they only half at best portrait the experience and proclaim (demand even) that everyone make it a necessity in life to experience this.

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