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Down the Danube Until the Crowds Disappear: A River Cruise from Budapest to the Black Sea The strange thing about cruising the Danube toward the Black Sea is that, eventually, Europe starts to quiet down. Not immediately, of course. Budapest still has bachelor parties operating at maritime-foghorn volume. Belgrade still has traffic. Bucharest still contains enough architecture, history, and civic contradiction to occupy several doctoral theses and at least two martinis. But s