The tour guides tried to
stop the elderly and infirm from climbing up, but to no
avail: they were springing over the rocks like lambs.
We walked back through looking closely
at the wild flowers – we saw orchids, a yellow cerinthe
and wild peas. Very beautiful. On the way back to the ship
it stated to thunder and we missed out on the trip to Baba
Vida fortress.
Albina passed on one very interesting piece
of information – Bulgarians shake their heads to indicate
"yes" and nod them for "no". How confusing!
We got back to the ship which left Vidin
at 19:00 to make its way to Orsova in Romania
At the usual evening briefing, Elisabeth
confused us. In particular, we could not work out what time
we were due to sail through the Iron Gates. After the debacle
of last time, we wanted to make sure we didn’t miss
it. She assured us that we would enter the Iron Gates at
06:00.
As usual we had dinner with B&G and
B&D. Despite it being a "seaman’s supper"
(I will not repeat Barbara’s joke here) I had the
pork.
In the evening, one of the crew displayed
his hidden talent and the second captain (Franz) played
the flute, clarinet and recorder – quite good but
very nervous. |