Europe
Dining on the Viking Delling Longship
I have written about our amazing stay on the beautiful Viking Delling Longship before but I didn’t go into detail about all our fabulous dining experiences as I decided they quite rightly deserved their own post. Viking River Cruises does a lot of things exactly right and the food on our cruise of southern France … Continue reading
Pin ItVisiting Charming Avignon with Kids
Avignon is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in south eastern France on the left bank of the Rhone River. This beautiful, medieval walled city with cobblestone streets and fascinating, historical buildings will interest everyone in the family. Kids will especially love touring the city on a small train, and investigating the Pont d’Avignon, a … Continue reading
Pin ItPhoto Friday: Perouges, France
Tom got this shot in the Medieval village of Perouges, France. Pin It
Pin ItThe Charming Hotel de L’Horloge in Avignon, France
We loved everything about our stay in the lovely, Medieval walled city of Avignon, France. After a completely exhausting trip from the United States to Marseilles which included an unexpected three-hour wait for our next flight at the Paris airport, we were finally able to relax on the short train ride from Marseilles to Avignon … Continue reading
Pin ItThe Fabulous Viking Delling Longship
Even though we technically didn’t cruise very far on our still wonderful cruise with Viking River Cruises, we absolutely enjoyed every minute on the gorgeous Viking Delling Longship. From the moment we arranged our cruise with Viking, we experienced nothing but completely professional service. One of the first clues we had that we were going to … Continue reading
Pin ItCities Less Traveled – Badhoevedorp, Netherlands
Badhoevedorp is a charming and typical Dutch village in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. Visitors are often confused by the country of Netherlands, and refer to it as Holland, while Holland is actually one of the provinces in this welcoming country. Photo by Emmett Bratt via Trover.com Because Badhoevedorp is only about … Continue reading
Pin ItVisiting Lyon, the “Capital of Lights”
Lyon, like many French cities, is beautiful, charming, and historic. But it is truly unique in its location. Situated in east Central France between Paris and Marseilles, this UNESCO World Heritage site is located on a peninsula where two rivers, the Rhone and the Saone converge to the south of the historic city center. Because … Continue reading
Pin ItExploring the French Medieval Village of Perouges
Visiting Perouges was actually an unexpected surprise on our recent trip to France. My husband and I were on a cruise of southern France with Viking River Cruises but, because the Rhone was overfilled with the run-off from melted snow in the Alps, our beautiful Viking Delling longship was berthed in Lyon and we were … Continue reading
The Cruise to Nowhere in Southern France with Viking River Cruises
We simply couldn’t believe it. How was it possible that we would now have experienced two cruises that never actually cruised? Two years ago we had stayed docked in Navy Pier in Chicago for an entire week because the weather on Lake Michigan was deemed too bad to make our scheduled cruise. Now, here we … Continue reading
Pin ItChocoholics Unite in Cologne, Germany!
Lovely pastel colored buildings and quaint cobblestone streets greet you as you pull into the charming city of Cologne, Germany on an AmaWaterways cruise of the beautiful Rhine River. Although Cologne may look like it dates from medieval times, much of the city was destroyed during WWII and restoration began in the late 1940’s. The … Continue reading
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