All roads may lead to Rome, but it’s still an hour’s drive away from Civitavecchia, where cruise ships have to dock. That means with travel time, a day on our own excursion to Rome from […]
The Iron Gates: They sound so formidable, but these days you can lighten up. Passing through them becomes a party. The name of the treacherous and narrow gorge on the lower Danube stems from the daunting challenge it posed […]
Saint Tropez, we’re told, was an early Christian martyr whose headless body–along with a rooster and a dog–washed ashore in a leaky rowboat on the beach near what would become his namesake town. Those who […]
There must have been a sale on the letters B and V when they were naming cities along the lower Danube. The itinerary for our journey from Budapest toward the Black Sea has us visiting […]
Look through any window. The views are always fantastic in Arles. When Vincent Van Gogh set up his studio in a bedroom here, it inspired him to create 300 paintings and drawings in just two […]
Whoa there, cowboy! If you think you’re hot stuff, get a load of what real wranglers can do: Five galloping horses are racing furiously around a track. A single horseman guides the team while standing up […]
I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that while every new river ship in Europe has to be the same length and height to navigate through the systems of locks, cruise companies still manage to […]
The floor is packed with ladies who can’t help but get up and salsa to the band’s infectious Cuban beat, while half a dozen bartenders muddle mojitos and dance as they decorate daiquiris. The Havana Bar on […]
No cruise on the Danube River is complete without a visit to the monastery at Melk, but be sure to bring your sunglasses, both to protect against glare on a river cruise and for admiring […]
In February, the French town of La Baule with its castle-like hotels and grandly ornate stone homes looks like a fairy tale ghost town. In a sense it is. When the season is over as […]
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