Friday 31st The River Danube

Last night the ship left Passau to sail to Deggendorf, however, in the morning  we found we were going back, the captain had turned the ship around about 4:30  am.  Getting back to Passau,  the river  had risen  two metres overnight and was continuing to  rise.
After breakfast  it was on to the buses for the excursion to Regensburg,  the roads were dry along the way so we thought we were in for a good day , but get out of the bus and it started to drench rain, so umbrellas and coats were again the order of the day. Walking tour of the town was followed by some free time for shopping, (note for Heather, no money was spent)
Two hour drive back to the ship and we were no sooner aboard when we moved off. Captain was told the ship couldn't stay there as the port was about to be closed to shipping, and water expected to rise by another 3 meters so we would be above the .mooring point over night so we backtracked again! Back to Linz in Austria . River is still rising but the locals don't seem concerned, apparently it happens often, one guide pointed out the houses along the river and said their basements will be flooded within a couple of days. The port in Linz is the winter port where they leave the ships over winter. Vienna is also closed to shipping, so at least we got past there.
Before dinner our cruise director, Cheri, gave us the good (?) news that it will be a five hour drive to Nuremberg tomorrow where we will do our planned excursion after a lunch of local sausages and sauerkraut. Then it will be another two hour drive to Wurzberg (because cant stop at Nuremburg)where we will join the MS Amaverde. This is our sister ship and identical so all passengers from both ships will swap over and go to same room numbers that they were in before. Ie we were room 208 on Amabella and go to room 208 on the Amaverde. The crews stay on their ship just the passengers swap