Passau

We made a day trip today to a town called Passau. One of its unique features us that there are 3 rivers that meet there. Sort of like the Forks but with another river. The Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers all meet. Were trying to make it to St. Steven’s Cathedral, it was built around 1600 and has the worlds largest pipe organ (17,974 pipes!). There is an organ concert at 12 pm each afternoon that we were trying to catch. The narrow streets at 12 noon really got us good this time. This town as many others were not made for vehicles. The steep grades were also amazing. We ended up closer to the Austrian border than the church. We did manage to get on a boat though and cruise up the Danube, it was a beautiful afternoon, clear and 20C plus, like most of the great weather that we have been having. In the old town there are so many squares that we walked upon towns within a town. There was also lots of talk of the great shopping that Passau also offered. “Major shopping” Natalie certainly is not taking any of this lying down.