April 22, 2022
Amsterdam in Bloom: How to See Tulips in Holland
If you’re like most travelers going to the Netherlands, you have one goal: to see the tulips in Holland. I don’t blame you;...
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October 5, 2016
Bulgaria’s Wonders: The Belogradchik Rocks
From Serbia, we had two days of stops in Bulgaria. What I loved about cruising with AmaWaterways is that the company offers free shore...
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October 2, 2016
Traveling to Serbia, the Heart of the Balkans
If I’m being frank, I was most excited about traveling to Serbia on our recent river cruise through Europe. First off, I’d never...
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September 24, 2016
The Scars of the Yugoslav Civil War
I first met Ana when she moved to Tullahoma in kindergarten. When you’re six years old, you don’t understand what a political...
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August 28, 2016
Basic Budapest: Know Before You Go
When we decided to take our 2016 Luna family vacation on an AmaWaterways river ship, we were more than a little excited that the week-long...
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September 10, 2014
Croatia: Lovely, but Not Cheap
Croatia is another one of those places I’ve been trying to reach for years, but has always been pushed aside for some reason or another:...
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September 5, 2014
One Day in Corfu, Greece: A Cruiser’s Guide
I had been to Greece once before. In 2006, my former flatmate Jo from my Edinburgh days found a killer deal to Kos for 10 days. So we went,...
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September 1, 2014
One Day in Montenegro: Climbing the Walls of Kotor
I’ve always wanted to go to Montenegro—long before it was its own entity and when it was still adjoined with Serbia, maybe even when...
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August 23, 2013
One Day in Lisbon, Portugal: A Cruiser’s Guide
One of the stops I was most eager about on our recent Semester at Sea cruise was our one day in Lisbon, thanks to an amazing two weeks SVV and...
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July 5, 2013
One Day in Riga, Latvia: A Cruiser’s Guide
One of the ports that was new to almost every person on board our spring Enrichment Voyage was Riga. But not me and not SVV. Somehow, we had...
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