Category: Central Europe
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Cruising the Mediterranean, part 1
From Rome, (click here if you missed our previous story) we took a taxi to the Port of Civitavecchia to embark on our Mediterranean Explorer and Atlantic Crossing Cruise aboard Viking Neptune. This was a multi-country cruise with several port stops in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, then an Atlantic Ocean crossing ending in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.…
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Nov 29-30, 2023 We’re back! It’s been two months since our last blog post because of the holidays and my additional travels. Two days after returning from our Mediterranean Explorer and Atlantic cruise crossing, I went to the Philippines for almost a month to attend a wonderful family reunion. Starting to write again now is…
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The Rest of our Rhine River Journey
Nov 23-27, Strasbourg, Speyer, Rüdesheim, Cologne, Amsterdam We finally enjoyed our first night on the ship after a bus ride to meet up with it at Ludwigshafen, Germany. I’m lumping together the rest of our Enchanting Rhine River Cruise, which was marred by rain and cold temperatures most of the time. Being from the desert, the…
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Time for Fall travels – Switzerland
We’re traveling again, this time heading for Europe. We started off the first part of our adventure (Nov. 16-28) with a Rhine River cruise from Basel to Amsterdam aboard AmaWaterways, after completing a pre-cruise excursion to Zurich, Lucerne and Basel. Then we flew to Rome and met the beautiful Viking Neptune ship for an ocean…
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Homelands Cruise – Berlin, Germany
Day 15 – Aug 3, 2022 We got up super-early for our 12-hour excursion in Berlin. A long day, but it was a whopping 150 miles from our port at Warnemunde to the city. Viking chartered a train since most of the ship’s passengers (over 470 of us) were going to Berlin with some extending to…
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The Finale, Grand European River Cruise – Netherlands
Windmills at Kinderdijk It was a windy, chilly and rainy morning when Viking Bragi docked at Kinderdijk, our first stop in the Netherlands. The included tour was a rain or shine affair, so everyone grabbed provided umbrellas as our guide led us to the only place in the world with so many windmills so close…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 5 – Germany
We’re having a lot of fun socializing here in San Diego, so completing my river cruise posts has become a challenge. But I have to hurry up or risk forgetting what we did just this past October! Be prepared for a lot of pictures, for this post is loaded with them. So enjoy your favorite…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 4 – Germany
This is the 4th of 6 installments covering our European river cruise: For Grand European River Cruise Part 1 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 2 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 3 click here Looking back at our itinerary I realized we stopped at 8 cities in Germany along the…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 3 – Austria
This is the third installment of our European river cruise: For Grand European River Cruise Part 1 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 2 click here We left Budapest and headed for Vienna, the capital of Austria. During the cruise program director’s port overview, we were intrigued enough to purchase an optional tour,…
