I’ve been welcomed aboard many a ship, but seldom with such simple grace as the greeting from the crew of Scenic Tsar at a rural dock in Moscow. The port is in the middle of […]
You’ve got to hand it to those early Dutch traders for fuel efficiency. They could travel thousands of miles on a galleon. Okay, bad joke. But you’ve still got to marvel at the bravery of […]
Roel Boulengier likes dark and stormy nights the best. “I like it when the winds are howling and the rain is pouring: that’s when the windmill does its work the best,” he proclaims, standing on […]
Avalon Waterways calls its new river ships “panorama class,” and from the moment I stepped aboard the latest, Avalon Vista, I could see why. You’re on the water and you want to see the view, so […]
North Holland is windmill country, a landscape that inspired generations of Dutch masters as well as decades of paint by numbers sets. It’s easy to see why on a day excursion from Avalon Waterways’ new port stop […]
Like all great fairy tales, the events unfolding had a building sense of enchantment. The dual christening ceremony to launch two Avalon Waterways’ Panorama-class ships was a rare event, even for a cruise industry that is […]
Extreme caution is in order when you walk the sidewalks of Hoorn, our first stop in Holland on the inaugural cruise of Avalon Waterways‘ new river cruise ship Avalon Vista. Many of the city’s streets are […]
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