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2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 5 - Strasbourg, Germany

13 December 2024 According to our tour guide, Strasbourg has changed hands between France and Germany several times in the last 100 years. There are more French speaking areas of the city and more German speaking ones. I suspect most residents are bi-lingual, at least. We arrived at Strasbourg in

2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 4 - Baden-Baden, Germany

12 December 2024 We had a short bus ride toward town, and a walk through a garden park toward the Casino and shopping area where the Christmas Market is. Before long, we were at the Trinkhalle's (Pump House's) beautiful open colonnade filled with frescoes, and this

2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 3 - Heidelberg, Germany

11 December 2024 The excursion for Heidelberg was another walking tour. They seem like the most common type of excursion on the river cruises, and it makes sense. We can walk off the boat, meet up with a tour guide, and step into the city for a guided tour by

2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 2 - Koblenz, Germany

10 December 2024 We docked in city of Koblenz in the early morning of Tuesday, 10 December. Koblenz is the city where the Rhine River, and the Moselle River meet, merging into a larger section of the Rhine. Right across from our mooring was a castle perched upon a hill

2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 1 - Cologne, Germany

9 December 2024 We boarded the bot on 8 December and found our cabin quite a bit smaller than what we had on the Silversea Muse, but very well laid out and we were able to unpack all of our things. Most of our transit from Amsterdam to Cologne took

2024 Christmas Markets Rhine River Cruise - Day 0 - Amsterdam

6, 7 and 8 December 2025 We arrived in Amsterdam, Holland a day before our scheduled cruise departure. We'll be hopping from city to city along the Rhine River, mostly hitting towns in Germany, and learning about the towns and checking out the Christmas Markets in each. We

Rhine River Christmas Market Cruise - 2024

We're heading out for our Christmas Markets cruise on the Rhine River in December of 2024. We'll be posting articles on our return, so stay tuned!

Alaska 2024 - Top 10 Things We Learned About Alaska

In August of 2024, we completed a 14 day Alaska cruise on the Silversea Muse. It was quite an adventure! In this post, we share the top 10 things we learned about Alaska. 1. Alaska is big! Alaska is by far the largest state in the U.S. Alaska is

Alaska 2024 - Day 14 Seward

22 August 2024 Our voyage from Valdez to Seward was smooth but was accompanied by mixed feelings. Both Galina and I didn't want our cruise and tour of Alaska to end, but we were also ready to settle back into our routine at home. Our flight from Anchorage

Alaska 2024 - Day 13 Valdez

21 August 2024 We had a smooth transit through the North Pacific, arriving in Valdez at 9:00 AM. The weather was overcast, but quite nice. The port of Valdez is of course famous for the Exxon Valdez, a huge oil tanker which struck an undersea rock while transiting Prince

Alaska 2024 - Day 12 Icy Bay

20 August 2024 Our next stop on the cruise was Icy Bay. As with other ports, when were travelling close enough to land to see the scenery, and during daylight hours, the views of Alaska's scenery on the way to our destination were spectacular! We rounded the evergreen

Alaska 2024 - Day 11 Skagway

19 August 2024 We pulled pier side in Skagway at 6:00 AM. Check out the magnificent view from the La Terrazza restaurant when we were having breakfast. Wow! What a way to start our day. A few things we learned about Skagway; In 1896, gold was discovered 600 miles

Alaska 2024 - Day 10 Icy Strait Point

18 August 2024 The scenery heading into Icy Strait Point was spectacular. We didn't pull up to the pier until 11:00 AM, so we had a relaxed morning watching the mountains, valleys, and islands roll by as we approached port and preparing for our Whale and Marine

Alaska 2024 - Day 9 Ketchikcan

17 August 2024 We continued through the Inside Passage arriving in Ketchikan at 8:00 on the morning. The weather was outstanding for our Misty Fjords and Wilderness Explorer high speed jet boat tour of some of the natural wonders surrounding Ketchikan! Our boat journey started out early soon after

Alaska 2024 - Day 8 Inside Passage

16 August 2024 Day 8 found us cruising the Inside Passage again. Wait, didn't we just do this the day before last? Yup. We set sail for another trip though the Inside Passage around 6:00 PM on the 15th and were well on our way up by

Alaska 2024 - Day 7 Vancouver

15 August 2024 After another night of smooth sailing through the Inside Passage, we arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We were pier side at the Canada Place Cruise Ship Terminal in downtown Vancouver. The sky was kind of grey when we moored in the morning, but it wasn'

Alaska 2024 - Day 6 Inside Passage

14 August 2024 No map today, but a photo from our journey through the Inside Passage. The map will be back when we reach our next port. This was an at sea day, while transiting from Wrangell to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The passengers and the crew were able to

Alaska 2024 - Day 5 Wrangell

13 August 2024 We headed out into the North Pacific, then through Sumner Strait, arriving at Wrangell, at 8:00 a.m. Seas were calm with swells that nicely meshed with the size of our ship to provide a slow, gentle up and down motion while we were in the

Alaska 2024 - Day 4 Sitka

Monday, 12 August 2024 Heading down Chilkoot Inlet, with a jog to starboard, we headed out to the open North Pacific for our trip to Sitka. There was a bit more motion than on previous days as we were outside the 12 nautical mile limit and away from shore for

Alaska 2024 - Day 3 Haines

Sunday, 11 August 2024 We navigated the Alaska Marine Highway up to Chilkoot Inlet, arriving in Haines at 8:00 a.m. We were kind of inland, protected by mountains and land the whole journey, so it was another smooth transit. We pulled up to the pier at 8:00

Alaska 2024 - Day 2 Juneau

Saturday, 10 August 2024 On the second day of our cruise, we got to see Juneau, Alaska. Although Juneau is the Capital of Alaska and the third largest city in Alaska with an estimated population of 31,337 as of 2024, Juneau has no highways connecting it to the rest

Alaska 2024 - Day 1 Hubbard Glacier

Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America, with a length of 76 miles and a width of seven miles where it meets the ocean...

Alaska 2024 - Day 0 Embarkation

8 August 2024 Our cruise on Silversea Muse started in Anchorage Alaska, where we went to the Egan Conference and Convention Center. We gave them our luggage and they assigned us to one of the departure busses. We arrived quite early in the morning and were on the first bus

Alaska 2024 Cruise!

We just returned from our first cruise! We did 14 days on Silversea Muse. It was fantastic! We'll be featuring a blog article and YouTube vlog for each day of the trip plus some other interesting tidbits. Subscribe for free to get updates whenever new posts come out

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