Tag: Viking River Cruises
We had been traveling through Eastern Europe for two weeks, and I hadn’t been able to stop talking about swimming. In fact, it had gone back even further: ever …
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 …
Here’s a very important lesson about drinking port wine: don’t drink a lot of it. It’s not its syrupy sweetness or that it’s associated with being a dessert wine …
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 …
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 …
On a recent trip to Croatia with Viking River Cruises, I took a day trip to the village of Osijek, a resilient prairie land, that lies hundreds of kilometers …
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 couldn’t have predicted that the night I arrived in Romania, I’d end up eating food from Moldova instead. In all honestly, I had no idea what kind of …
It’s not exactly fun getting lost in Russia, a country whose unusual Cyrillic alphabet makes deciphering maps for the general Latin-alphabet reader a little less than intuitive and whose …