The floods in many parts of the Rhine/Danube appear to have been worse in June of this year than in the previous serious floods of 2002, as the photo comparison shows.

Had we have been booked on our cruise 6 to 8 weeks earlier, we would have been put in a hotel & given restricted coach excursions as an alternative.. No river traffic would have been possible, with little clearance between the swollen rivers & the bridges.