Eastern Europe Viking Cruise By Judi Cohen The moment our Viking longship, Viking Ullur, arrived in Budapest, I felt like I was “home.” Here, in the heart of Hungary on the Danube River, I was surrounded by the flavours and scents that defined my childhood. This...
Adventure Canada Arctic Cruise By Judi Cohen True to its name, Adventure Canada delivered adventure from the moment we departed Toronto on a charter flight to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, throughout our 10-day expedition, until our last zodiac transfer in Qausuittuq...
Champa Pandaw on the Upper Mekong By Judi Cohen @TravelingJudi Nearly a decade ago, my husband and I discovered Pandaw Cruises. Over the past 10 years we've traveled throughout Southeast Asia on their small river boats in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. While...
Viking Octantis Great Lakes Cruise By Judi Cohen Sometimes the most beautiful things can be found right in your own backyard! Living in Toronto, on the shores of Lake Ontario all my life, I never thought much about exploring the Great Lakes. Road tripping in Ontario...
Le Boating on Canada's Rideau Canal Again By Judi Cohen In 2021 my husband and I, our daughter Alison and her playful Samoyed puppy Joni, enjoyed captaining a luxury houseboat with Le Boat Vacations on the Canada's Rideau Canal so much, that for Father’s Day in 2022,...
French Polynesia Feels Like Paradise By Judi Cohen @TravelingJudi Struck by wanderlust while still a little nervous about venturing too far from home as the COVID pandemic lingered on, I finally decided to travel to one of the most remote and exotic paradises...
Small-Ship Hawaii Cruise with UnCruise By Judi Cohen Never thrilled about the idea of traveling thousands of miles just to sit on a beach sipping a colourful drink, Hawaii was not very high on my list of destinations. Until my husband and I spent a week with UnCruise...
Canal du Midi Anjodi Hotel Barge Cruise By Judi Cohen. For many years I dreamed of traveling on a luxury barge in the south of France and in October 2021 my husband and I made remarkable memories on a Canal du Midi hotel barge cruise aboard European Waterways...
Cruising Canada’s Rideau Canal on Kawartha Voyageur By Judi Cohen With only a handful of cruise lines operating in Canada due to COVID restrictions, I was on a mission to cruise on every small ship in the Province of Ontario, close to home in Toronto. Cruising aboard...
Small Cruise Line Review: St. Lawrence Cruise Lines’ Canadian Empress By Judi Cohen Updated Nov 2024 (though the context of Judi cruising during the COVID pandemic in 2021 remains intact in this review, most of the ship and port details remain relevant today). As...
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By Stephanie Sack Stretching from the Canal du Midi in the south to the Canal du Nivernais in the north, the complex canal systems crisscrossing France are not just inland waterways — they are living artifacts of European history, once crucial for trade and industry...
By Paige Okun It was the first morning of our Greek island cruise. The sun rose over the Aegean Sea, and I was feeling relaxed and ready for a day of island hopping — until I reached for my phone and found it at 5% battery. I rifled through my backpack in panic. Then...
By Heidi Sarna With the handsome 166-passenger Star Clipper anchored off in the distance, as if posing for a postcard, we motored in one of the ship's tenders to Isla Iguana in Panama. It was one of the week's several wet landings. This meant we climbed out of the...
By Anne Kalosh AmaWaterways has just introduced AmaMagdalena, the first luxury vessel to sail Colombia’s Magdalena River. Cruises between Cartagena and Barranquilla include cultural highlights such as a private celebration of the world-famous Barranquilla Carnival, a...
By John Roberts, with Peter Knego and Heidi Sarna I have cruised with Sea Cloud Cruises twice now. These trips in the past two years follow my first time on a true windjammer when I cruised with Star Clippers a couple years ago in France. There is so much to enjoy on...
By John Roberts Sea Cloud Cruises placed its newest windjammer, Sea Cloud Spirit, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for four January departures, sailing to serene destinations in the colorful Caribbean. This is a new program for Sea Cloud, and I joined one of the voyages for...
By Jackie Sheckler Finch Cruising the mighty Mississippi and its tributaries has been my pleasure since 1976. Someone asked me once if it doesn’t get tiresome watching the river day after day. For me, definitely not. As America’s first highway, the Mississippi River...
Sponsored Since its founding, St Lawrence Cruise Lines (SLCL) has been a company supported by both Americans and Canadians. “In light of the current environment, we have certainly had some calls from our American friends wondering if we are upset with them. That is...
By Jerrol Golden Let’s go! That’s what our guide, Fadi, says when it’s time to move on to the next location. The banks of the Nile River in Egypt contain some of the world’s most historic sites and we were there to learn as much as we could about the ancient...
Reviewer Aliza Knox from Singapore & Sydney. Cruise Line Mutiara Laut. Ship A classic Indonesian two-mast schooner, the 14-passenger Mutiara Laut. Destination Northern area of Raja Ampat, in West Papua, Indonesia. # of Nights 7. Departure Port Sorong Bay, West...
Cycling & Europe River Cruising By Ralph Grizzle I am not your typical river cruiser. While no one loves river cruising more than I do, my approach is somewhat different. After more than 50 European river cruises, I’ve seen the sights and done the tours. I’m not...
