Chronicles

Hello Everyone! I’ve just returned from a wonderful ten day cruise aboard the beautiful Royal Princess. This time we cruised the Southern Caribbean, going to islands that we had not yet been to. The only one we stopped at previously was St Thomas (which is beautiful!) Our thinking that this past cruise might be the

Are you a River Cruiser?  Let’s take a look at who that is.  On my recent river cruise there was newlyweds (yes, indeed) and there was a couple celebrating their 62nd wedding anniversary (isn’t that amazing!) and of course, there was everyone like me there as well. River cruising invites those who are seasoned travelers,

To close up this chapter of the River Cruising, I thought I’d share with you what I experienced on board AmaWaterways, AmaPrima while cruising the Danube on the Christmas Time Cruise. With 23 other Travel Agents from Canada and the USA, I was offered the opportunity to travel as a “regular passenger” on board to

It’s raining! It’s snowing!  and then it stopped!  I managed to get some beautiful pictures from the AmaPrima of this picturesque town on the Danube, but I skipped sightseeing here and instead when to Salzburg, Austria!  Yes, that Salzburg, where the Sound of Music was filmed and Mozart was born!  Saw many filming sights in

We arrived in Melk to 6 inches of snow!  The snowman building kind of snow…so I built a snowman! We were blessed with the opportunity to go and see this inspiring Benedictine Abby overlooking the Danube Rive and the Wachau valley.  It contains the tomb of Saint Coloman, which I had the opportunity to see

No buildings higher than three floors….all about the grandeur of music! We arrived worrying about snow, but did not see any! Ama again arranged for an excellent walking tour around this beautiful city.  The beautiful St Stephen’s Cathedral dominates the skyline with the Pummerin bell tower standing majestically 68 meters above you.  The colorful roof

I can’t possibly explain how much I loved Budapest! This amazing city is so incredibly beautiful. Fisherman’s Bastion, Castle Hill, St Stephen’s Basilica.

Well, the flight to Amsterdam was certainly an adventure!  Got boarded and left from Vancouver right on time!  The sun set, the stars came out, I got about 45 minutes worth of sleep in the 8 hour flight and the sun rose.  Then, the storm arrived just before our arrival into Amsterdam.  The plane rocked and

So today the journey to my Christmas Time River Cruise on AmaWaterways AmaPrima begins.  I’ll first be flying to Vancouver then Amsterdam!  See you in Amsterdam…..

I recently had the opportunity to attend Nexion’s (my host company) 20th Anniversary Conference at Sea on board Norwegian Cruise Lines newest ship, Norwegian Getaway.  She was built in 2014 has the capacity for 3,969 guests and a crew of 1,640. She’s a big ship at 145,655 gross register tonnage, 1,068.3 feet in overall length