Sunday morning May 5th, we walked a short distance to catch the Metro. We were a bit surprised to learn that Amsterdam has a subway, given that the city is below sea level. It was a short subway ride...
Europe Part 9 – Amsterdam Day 1
Once we left the ship, we took a Bolt (rideshare similar to Uber but more popular/common in EU countries) from the port to our hotel, and were thrilled that we were able to check in even though it was...
Europe Part 8 – Kinderdijk, The Netherlands
Friday May 3rd was our last full day on the cruise and it was rainy and chilly. We spent most of the day cruising which provided a good opportunity to start packing our suitcases. We cruised from Cologne to...
Europe Part 7 – Cologne, Germany
Unbelievable. We’re nearing the end of the cruise…Thursday May 2nd brought us to the fourth largest city in Germany, Cologne…or Koln if you are German! Our morning started with a walking tour that covered several key sites in the...
Europe Part 6 – Castles on the Rhine, Marksburg, & Koblenz Germany
We welcomed the month of May with a cruising morning, enjoying a variety of castles along the Middle Rhine. There are 25,000 castles in Germany (more than any other country). We saw a lot, but we did not see...
Europe Part 5 – Speyer & Rudesheim, Germany
This brings us to the last day of April, and my 55th birthday. I can’t think of a more wonderful way to spend my birthday than on such an incredible cruise and vacation in Europe! It was a cruising...
Europe Part 4 – Strasbourg, France
On Monday April 29th, we woke up in Kehl, Germany which is just across the Rhine from Strasbourg, France which was our destination for the day. We started our morning with a bus tour around Strasbourg, which is the...
Europe Part 3 – Black Forest (Germany) and The Colmar Pocket (France)
On Sunday April 28th, we woke up in Breisach, Germany and our morning excursion was to the Black Forest. Interestingly, no one really knows why it’s called the Black Forest…the most likely story is because of the densely packed...
Europe Part 2 – Basel, Switzerland
Saturday morning (April 26th), we packed up and headed to Hbf to catch our train to Zurich, Switzerland. We had our tickets, which of course were entirely in German, so I had already done the translations to figure out...
Europe Part 1 – Munich and Dachau, Germany
Our European adventure started on Wednesday April 24th with a 6pm flight out of Chicago O’Hare, direct to Munich. Love that we can fly direct to Europe…when we lived in Rochester, we either had to connect somewhere or drive...