On the last full day of our Viking River Cruise “Grand European Tour,” we arrived in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. The itinerary showed a trip to Kinderdijk, where 19 windmills have been built close together – closer than any other place in the world. It sits in the middle of Randstad, which is a ...
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Viking River Cruise Day #11: Cologne, Germany
We continued our 2-week European river cruise with a stop in Cologne, Germany. We arrived in port shortly after breakfast, after sailing through the night on the Rhine River from Koblenz. (Fact: The Rhine is the longest river in Germany.) Cologne holds its secrets from the past – including Roman ...
Viking River Cruise Day #10: Koblenz, Germany
We never tired of seeing the scenes as we cruised by castles, cathedrals, vineyards and village life along the rivers of Germany. On day #10, we spent the morning on the scenic deck atop the ship, watching as life rolled by on the Middle Rhine River. We stopped for the day in Koblenz, Germany, ...
Viking River Cruise Day #9: Wertheim, Germany
Day #9 of our European Grand Tour with Viking River Cruise Ships brought us to the port of Wertheim, located at the confluence of the Main and Tauber Rivers in Germany. As with most of the stops, we opted for the walking tour and again, a knowledgeable guide (this time, a retired German Army ...
Viking River Cruise Day #8: Würzburg, Germany
This was impressed upon us again and again: In Germany, Franconia is part of Bavaria … but Bavaria is not Franconia. What’s the difference, you may wonder? Franconia is the northern area of the kindgdom of Bavaria and the people poo-poo the notion of being called Bavarians. They prefer, as our ...