 The MS Amadagio in Dürnstein, Austria (above); Fine cuisine aboard the Amadagio (right); Unseasonal spring snow in Germany (below)  |
 "Europe is not designed for speed”, said the Romanian philosopher Andrei Pleşu.
Pleşu may well have had the Danube-Main-Rhine rivers in mind. When a cruise ship gets stranded in the Bavarian city of Würzburg after swollen river levels prevent it from passing under the city’s low stone bridges, the result becomes an exercise in "What if...?"
The crew handle the situation with a good deal of aplomb, as passengers are bussed to some of the places on the ship's scheduled itinerary. But eventually the long wait becomes a muse on the very nature of rivers and their role in “The New Europe”.
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