Let's Go!
2024年8月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 93 °F
Ready for the long flight to Zurich! Delta Crown Room is really nice in the international terminal.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!
2024年8月29日, スイス ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F
The flight to Zurich was uneventful (thankfully) and was surprised at how small the airport was. There was immigration/passport inspection but no customs. We quickly went to the train station for aもっと詳しく
Day in Basel, Switzerland.
2024年8月30日, スイス ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Angele and I left our hotel for the Viking dock and the staff graciously took our bags and Angele and I left to explore the city. We should have stayed in Basel yesterday! Basel is the third largestもっと詳しく
The Black Forest
2024年8月31日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Our first excursion was a 1.5 hour bus trip through German countryside to a little area in the Black Forest. Visited a chapel constructed in the 1100's and this area is known for Cuckoo Clock Makers.もっと詳しく
Afternoon in Breisach, Germany
2024年8月31日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
Had lunch on the boat and then Renee, Angele, I walked up into Breisach. The church has an interesting story, note the two spires are completely different. A wedding was happening in the church soもっと詳しく
Summer Wine Festival in Breisach!
2024年8月31日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
Angele, Renee, and I ran into some fellow Viking Explorers who were looking for a wine festival. We assumed it was down a blocked off street and we were correct. About 20 German wineries and it was aもっと詳しく
Strasbourg, France
2024年9月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Renee, Mark, Angele, and I took a tour of Strasbourg, France this morning. City with a great history as it has flipped back and fourth between being a German and France city.
More Strasbourg!
2024年9月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
The Catholic church in Strasbourg is the 6th tallest in the world!
More photos from Obernai!
2024年9月1日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Quick stop at Obernai, France
2024年9月1日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Nice little midevel village for a quick stop on our way to a wine tasting. Town is famous for Sainte-Odile, the patron saint for Alsace. Born blind and regained sight after she was baptized at 13もっと詳しく
Wine Tasting at Xavier Muller
2024年9月1日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Bussed to the town of Marlenheim to visit Xavier Muller Winery for a wine tasting. It was not great.
Morning in Speyer
2024年9月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Walking tour of Speyer, Germany this morning! The Speyer Cathedral was built in the 1100's and can hold 5,000 worshippers!
More Speyer photos
2024年9月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Angele and Renee completed the Portuguese route of the Camino de Santiago in April. We have seen a few signs during our trip including this statue of St. James.
Cruising the Rhine.
2024年9月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
After the morning tour, a bus took us up river to meet "Mani" (name of the boat) where we had lunch and enjoyed a cruise to the next port of Rudesheim. Rudesheim is a town of 10k and is in the middleもっと詳しく
Dinner in Rudenstein
2024年9月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Dinner in a small town of 10k that was a Viking Excursion. Had an enjoyable evening!
Castles of the Middle Rhine
2024年9月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Today's journey takes us up the Rhine past the "Castles of the Middle Rhine". The Rhine River was a main passage of trade and armies from England and Amsterdam. These photos are the first few Castlesもっと詳しく
More Castles of the Middle Rhine
2024年9月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Some more Castles of the Rhine
2024年9月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Interesting issue, our Viking ship had to port before today's stop in Koblenz under the Marksburg Castle. Up river there is construction and an unexploded ordinance from WW2 was discovered. Waiting toもっと詳しく
Day in Koblenz, Germany
2024年9月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Koblenz, Germany is a fast growing part of Europe due to its central European location and it's cost of living compared elsewhere but this is changing. Many USA companies have European headquarters inもっと詳しく
More photos from Koblenz.
2024年9月3日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Story on the clock and the face where his eyes move and his tongue is out at the top of the hour is amusing. Also, the spitting boy fountain is popular with the locals.
Cologne Cathedral
2024年9月4日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
This morning's tour was Old Towne Cologne with the highlight being the Cathedral. Cologne was 96% destroyed during WW2 and the city was rebuilt to look as it did pre-war. The Cathedral was damagedもっと詳しく
More photos from Cologne.
2024年9月4日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Had a great lunch at a local Brauhous!
Beer tour of Cologne
2024年9月4日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Tonight we signed up for a Brauhaus tour with dinner and sampling local beer from Cologne. None of us are real beer drinkers but our traditional German dinner at Peter's and the beer at the otherもっと詳しく
Quaint old towne of Gorinchem
2024年9月5日, オランダ ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Start of our tour today was walking through the old towne of Gorinchem, Netherlands.
Visit to a cheese maker/dairy farm.
2024年9月5日, オランダ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Second part of our tour was a dairy farm who uses the milk to make cheese and other dairy products. Had about 400 cows and 270 are producing milk.




















































































































































































































































