Cruising the Danube on the Riverside Mozart

It was near the end of ski season. Captain Trish and I were facing a bleak rafting outlook for the summer after a dismal winter in Colorado. We applied for river permits via recreation.gov in January, but no one from our rafting family won a lottery. We'd talked about doing a river cruise in Europe before, but hadn't looked into it much. Trish decided this was the year to make it happen. "If our…