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 …
Kerry Dexter
June 25, 2018
travel stories, Africa travel, Asia travel, Australia & NZ travel, cruise travel, Europe travel, History, Kerry projects, Parks and preserves, Perceptive Travel, Travel, US travel
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 …
Kristin Winet
January 10, 2018
Travel, cruise travel, Europe travel, food & drink, green travel, History, Kristin projects, Perceptive Travel, photography, travel blogs
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. …
Kristin Winet
December 13, 2017
cruise travel, Europe travel, History, Kristin projects, Literary Travel, Perceptive Travel, photography, Travel, travel blogs, travel stories
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 …