Amanda on the Danube: The Sounds of Music

Amanda on the Danube: The Sounds of Music — page 7
the centre of the lounge and spoke into a micro phone Thank you Jozsef for that lovely rendition of The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II Tomorrow after a tour of the city of Nuremberg we will leave this canal and head out onto the Danube Is that not what you came for Everyone clapped and cheered Amanda stayed up late chatting with Leah They had so much to talk about since they last saw each other It's hard when your BFF lives in England and you live in Canada Amanda was so excited she could hardly sleep that night Sometime in the early hours of the morning Amanda woke up to the strains of The Blue Danube Who would be playing a violin at this hour she thought and fell back to sleep After breakfast they boarded a tour bus that took them around the city of Nuremberg Elsa the tour guide explained the difference between berg and burg A berg is a hill or mountain So if a name of a place ends in berg like Nuremberg it usually means it was built on a hill A burg is a fortified town If a name of a place ends in burg it has or used to have a wall around it Amanda loved little pieces of information like