A European Sojourn
Overview For years we heard a lot of good things about taking a river cruise in Europe. After sampling the river cruise experience for a few days in Egypt on the Nile in 2023, we decided to take the plunge and go [...]
A Netherlands Adventure
Overview This post covers The Netherlands portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Belgium. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam [...]
A Belgium Adventure
Overview This post covers the Belgium portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure after the Viking cruise has docked in Amsterdam after leaving Germany. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River [...]
A German Adventure
Overview This post covers the German portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Austria. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam [...]
An Austrian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Austrian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up as we leave Hungary. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam and then [...]
A Hungarian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Hungarian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Croatia. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam [...]
A Croatian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Croatian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Serbia. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam [...]
A Serbian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Serbian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Bulgaria. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam [...]
A Bulgarian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Bulgarian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we pass out of Romania. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest [...]
A Romanian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Romanian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across Europe from Bucharest to Amsterdam and then a trip that we arranged after the [...]
The Ancient Civilizations Road Trip Part 3 – Greece
Overview In 2016, we visited the Island of Crete in Greece for several weeks and had a blast, however, we've never been to mainland Greece. High on our bucket list was the Acropolis in Athens as well as a number of other [...]
The Ancient Civilizations Road Trip Part 2 – Egypt
Overview After a lifetime of thinking about it, we finally pulled the trigger on going to Egypt and visiting this part of the ancient world - and our son Carl was able to join us. We planned the trip 5 months in [...]