Picture of the blue Danube

The Hungarians call it "blonde", the Romanians and Bulgarians call it "white".

A bit of trivia which is not common knowledge, even in Germany:

The Danube is a rare river that flows into two very different oceans many thousand kilometers apart. The young Danube splits and the major part of the Danube water joins via another small river the Lake of Constance and flows with the Rhine into the Northern Sea. The part of water flowing into the Rhine increases steadily. The time may not be too far away that all of the water of the young Danube flows into the Rhine. The state now is that on more than 200 days per year all the young Danube water flows into the Rhine. One hundred years ago that happened only on about 60 days per year. The "Danube" in these dry days reappears after some miles of a dry river bed with the next tributary. But in these days not a single drop of the young Danube is contained in the later Danube that leaves Germany.

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