Cruising the happiest river through cities of slow pleasures

By Brian Johnston
Updated November 22 2017 - 10:38am, first published 10:33am

The Danube is a happy river. At Passau on the edge of Germany, students lounge in cafes on its banks, pleased with their pastel-painted university town and its pastries topped with avalanches of whipped cream.

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