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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
March 2019 Travel Tips and Tales Newsletter By WAVEJourney Greetings! Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere and WJ has big travel plans! How about you? Chat with us and let us know where you’re going, what you’re doing, and ask for the advice and travel tips you need to enhance your adventures. After a […]