After a very busy period, a week of slow cruising on the Rhône River sounded indeed very appealing. This time my parents were coming too, for their first river cruise. There was also a group of media friends that would be on board. In short, an interesting week ahead! We embarked [...]
Nobody could believe what a stunningly beautiful day it was, on May 10th 2017, for the christening of AMAKRISTINA, AmaWaterways' newest river cruise ship. After too many days of cold and grey weather, summer-like conditions had finally arrived in Europe, and in Lahnstein, a town with an idyllic view on the river [...]
Probably it was the oldest cruise ship I have ever been on. The Swedish JUNO was built in 1874, and she is still operating on the route she was built for: the Göta Canal. The Göta Canal was one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken in Sweden. The excavation [...]
Have you seen my blogpost about the Amawaterways cruise on the river Seine? I have to confess something: three weeks before the cruise with "Ama" I did another cruise, on the same river, with the SEINE PRINCESS, from the French company CroisiEurope. Twice the same river, with less than a month in [...]
A cruise on the Seine at end of October? When I got the invitation my enthusiasm was lukewarm. Unbelievable, it turned out to be one of the best cruises I ever did! You will understand why, when you go through the photographs. It was my third experience with Amawaterways. In 2015 [...]
The question came if I wanted to participate in a press trip on board of the newest ship of French company CroisiEurope. There she is! Once arrived at the airport Tegel, Berlin, a short taxi ride brought me and my Belgian colleague Daniel to the colourful Greenwich Promenade next to the equally [...]
In France they call the river Loire "un fleuve sauvage", a wild river. The water is often very shallow and the strength of the current unpredictable. For the first time a river cruise ship has been developed, especially for the Loire. I was delighted to receive an invitation from CroisiEurope to attend [...]
When I walk up early on our last full day in Saigon, it is still surprisingly silent in the port. Very slowly traffic gets going, a rooster crows on the boat next to ours. At 8:30 the bus is waiting to take us on a tour through the city. Saigon has [...]
So happy I got up very early this morning to witness one of the most beautiful sunrises of this trip. We leave early for the first visit of the day. We are in My Tho, which consists of 4 islands. We visit the largest one, Thoi Son, with a boat. [...]
A new day for us to discover Vietnam. We are in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. We enjoy every second of life, and the scenery around us. Today we visit Sa Dec. First we visit the colourful Confucian pagoda Kien An Cung. It surprisingly has an open roof, so the [...]
