Cruises are not a great way to get to know places in any depth. At most, guests have a few hours in each destination. But they are a good way to sample a variety of destinations, in order to know which places might be worth a return visit, and this is exactly what happened in … Read more
Siebers Tower is one of many entrances to the medieval city walls in pretty Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. One of the many magnificent sites seen during my Grand European Tour with Viking River Cruises.
St. James Church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in the Bavarian part of southern Germany, is on the pilgrimage route to St. James Church in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. One of the many magnificent sites seen during my Grand European Tour with Viking River Cruises.
Gasthaus zum Riesen (Giant’s Inn) in Miltenberg, Germany is one of the oldest operating (if not the oldest) Inns in the country, as one of the oldest in the world. One of the many magnificent sites seen during my Grand European Tour with Viking River Cruises.
Sometime during the night my Viking River cruise ship left the castles of the Middle Rhine behind and turned left onto the Main River. Just east of Frankfurt we crossed over into Bavaria, an area of Germany that most associate with snow-capped alps, giant mugs of beer, alpine meadows, and Lederhosen. I was quickly disavowed … Read more
