Category: cruise travel

When I first took a boat trip on Halong Bay back in the late 1990s, that area of Vietnam wasn’t all that popular. I think I had only known …

On our last day at sea, a thought occurred to me. It didn’t come suddenly, like a tumble of rocks falling down a mountain all at once, and it …

Legend has it: Deep inside the dungeon of a pirate captain’s 18th century mansion in Nassau, Bahamas, there is a bottle of what is rumored to be the oldest drinkable bottle of wine in …

Two things about this post: For most of my life, I never imagined that I would be going on a babymoon. Me? A mother? And a babymoon? Until recently, …

At first glance, it’s a little misleading. If you go in the late wintertime, the water might look just a little bit murky. The air might be a little …

Rivers, lakes, oceans, beaches: waterways were among people’s earliest highways and means of travel. People lived near water for sustenance, for travel, for trade, and for joy, too. Sea …

The Danube courses through Central and Eastern Europe connecting its spring in the Black Forest all the way out to the Black Sea. It flows from Germany into Austria, …

Sometimes, the “hokey, touristy” thing to do is popular because it is a great experience, and blowing it off means that you’ll miss something that you would very much …

I’m not exactly a wine-tasting connoisseur, but I do know that when I drink wine I should be on the lookout for things. Things like floral, citrus, and oak. …

We looked at each other at exactly the same time and said it almost simultaneously. I could live here. That’s what Coimbra does to a person like me, a …

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 …