Category: cruise travel
Vidin, Bulgaria is, by all respects, a sleepy town. If you’ve never heard of Vidin, you’re in good company—before I’d stepped off the boat and onto its soil, I …
Is it still something special to travel all the way around the world? Oldies like me might not think so since “back in the day” there weren’t 10,000 bloggers …
If a relative invited you to go on a cruise ship with them, would you do it? Our former contributor Liz Lewis did when her mom invited her on …
I’ve written about how wrong it is to take food out of context; how wrong it is to appropriate someone else’s national cuisine without fully understanding its nuances, its …
I remember the first time I ever heard about mangrove trees. I was in Malaysia, on a boat, sailing in and out of these delicate little caves looking …
When most people think of traveling through multiple countries in Europe over a summer, they picture trains and Eurail passes. In recent decades budget airlines like RyanAir, WizzAir, and …
In March of 2016, the last independent bookstore in Long Beach closed. It was a sadly anti-climactic event. One day, the storefront sign was up—its literariness in stark contrast …
I’m sitting here getting drunk off homemade moonshine at eleven o’clock in the morning on a Tuesday. Actually, this is what we’re all doing in Uglich, the twelve of …
For nineteen years, the Shawnodese has been getting its hull wet on long summer nights in the waters of Lake Pend Oreille. For nineteen long years, it’s been slicing …
The brawny, bare-chested boatsman wore nothing but a lungi wrapped around his waist, and a big, toothy grin tucked away in a bushy beard. His other hand gripping the …
All last week I’ve had Oslo on my mind. Maybe it was because I had been looking at the itinerary of the Crown Princess Baltic cruise that the mother …
Queenstown might be considered the adventure capital of New Zealand but thankfully not every activity in this adrenalin hyped lakeside town requires the participants to have nerves of steel. …