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WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Loire Valley & Bordeaux

WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Loire Valley & Bordeaux

WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Loire Valley & Bordeaux Day 6: Anyone who loves French chateaux and manor houses will enjoy a visit to Château de Chenonceau, known in English as Chenonceau Castle. Visiting the elegant Chenonceau manor house was the first stop on our Globus La France motorcoach tour after leaving […]

WJ Tested: Austria – Vienna City of Fine Arts Tour

WJ Tested: Austria – Vienna City of Fine Arts Tour

WJ Tested: Austria – Vienna City of Fine Arts Tour Uniworld Vienna, Austria – Choice Tour: Vienna City of Arts with Art Historian Day 14: Uniworld River Princess arrived in Austria’s capital city Vienna early in the morning and docked at Liegestelle on the Danube canal. Vienna is a very popular river cruise port on […]

WJ Tested: Bulgaria – Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi

WJ Tested: Bulgaria – Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi

WJ Tested: Bulgaria – Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi Optional Shore Excursion on Uniworld River Princess Eastern Europe Explorer Danube River Cruise Day 5: Uniworld River Princess remained in Rousse, Bulgaria for the day which provided passengers with two options – visit the town of Rousse on our own, or take the optional excursion to Veliko […]

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Solvorn to Geiranger

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Solvorn to Geiranger

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Solvorn to Geiranger By Vivienne Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Continued from previous page – Flam to Solvorn   Solvorn to Lom – National Tourist Route Sognefjellet: On our scenic drive from Solvorn to Geiranger we took the National Tourist Route Sognefjellet, and crossed Northern Europe’s highest pass – at […]

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Flam to Solvorn

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Flam to Solvorn

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Flam to Solvorn By Vivienne Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Flam to Solvorn – National Tourist Route: After we completed our buffet breakfast at the Fretheim Hotel, it was time to depart and we started the drive to Solvorn. We first drove 8 km along Aurlandsfjord to Aurland, then continued […]

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Bergen to Flam

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Bergen to Flam

Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Bergen to Flam By Viv Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Backpacking around Europe for a few weeks during the summer of 1987, I made the split-second decision in Amsterdam to take the train south into France instead of going north to Scandinavia. In all those years, I’ve returned to France […]

WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Bergen

WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Bergen

WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Bergen Bergen is Norway’s second-largest city (Oslo is the largest) with a population approaching 270,000 in the municipality and nearly 400,000 in  Greater Bergen.  Known as “The Gateway to the Fjords of Norway”, Bergen’s city center actually faces a fjord – Byfjorden. Bergen Port, hugely popular with cruise […]

WAVEJourney Travel Tips: Discover Norway’s Fjord Region

WAVEJourney Travel Tips: Discover Norway’s Fjord Region

WAVEJourney Travel Tips: Discover Norway’s Fjord Region Fancy a fjord? There is no better place to start exploring than in Bergen, Norway. Dubbed “The Gateway to the Fjords of Norway”, Bergen is the perfect jumping off spot for a Western Norway adventure. WAVE Journey enjoyed eight full days on the ground in Norway this summer. […]

Tracking Rhinos in Zimbabwe

Tracking Rhinos in Zimbabwe

Tracking Rhinos in Zimbabwe By Deborah “Koala” Vandruff The rhinos had been allusive on the trip thus far; in the Serengeti, we saw some small dark shapes far in the distance. When they moved, we could barely make out the shape of a large horn on the head of a bulky animal. We took the […]

Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 9 Naples, Italy

Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 9 Naples, Italy

Viv & Jill’s Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise: Day 9 Naples, Italy 12-Night Mediterranean Romance Cruise June 3-15, 2011 Day 9 – June 11: Naples, Italy After sailing overnight from Catania, Sicily, Nieuw Amsterdam arrived in Naples just before 8 am. As we had visited Naples on the last Mediterranean cruise we took a […]

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