Plan to spend time in Madrid before or after your cruise While cruising to Spain and the Canary Islands via Silversea Cruises last month, I had an opportunity to spend the night in Madrid. Like some of the cities that I get a chance to see for a brief amount of time, I…
Year: 2012
River Cruise Buzz: Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz via Uniworld Cruises Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz Featured Excursion: Koblenz walking tour and Christmas Market Snowy day in Koblenz could not keep me from exploring. Our ship cruised from Rudesheim and headed north through the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. When we arrived to…
River Cruise Buzz: Cologne, Germany Christmas Markets Review
River Cruise Buzz: Cologne via Uniworld Cruises Rhine Christmas Markets Cruise Featured Excursions: Cologne walking tour, cathedral visit, and Christmas Markets. I was glad that my Christmas markets journey on Uniwolrd Cruises’ S.S. Antoinette began in the smaller town of Basel, Switzerland and ended in the very large city of Cologne, Germany. During…
River Cruise Buzz: Mainz and Rüdesheim via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Mainz and Rüdesheim via Uniworld Cruises Day 5: Mainz and Rüdesheim Featured Excursion: Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum, Rüdesheim Day 5 on my Uniworld Cruises Rhine Christmas markets cruise included stops at Mainz and Rüdesheim; a cooking demonstration about Black Forest Cake; a lecture about German Christmas traditions; and a music concert. Cruise…
River Cruise Buzz: Heidelberg and Speyer via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Heidelberg and Speyer via Uniworld Cruises Rhine Holiday Markets Cruise Day 4: Speyer and tour to Heidelberg Featured Excursion: Full-day exploration in Heidelberg and Christmas markets or option to return back to Speyer to enjoy their Christmas market close to the ship. Uniworld Cruises’ S.S. Antoinette docked in Speyer, Germany…
River Cruise Buzz: Strasbourg Christmas Market via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Strasbourg via Uniworld Cruises Day 3: Kehl Featured Excursion: Strasbourg canal cruise and Christmas Markets Today I grabbed a complimentary umbrella and headed out for my half-day tour. On the docket was a canal cruise of Strasbourg and then a guided walk around the old city. Strasbourg Canal Cruise Our local…
River Cruise Buzz: Basel Christmas Markets via Uniworld Cruises
Basel Christmas Markets Uniworld S.S. Antoinette featured port excursion Basel – The Christmas City at the heart of Europe Basel, Switzerland’s second-largest city is located in the three countries corner of Switzerland, France and Germany. Our guide told us that the area of the river where Basel occupies is referred to as “the knee of…
River Cruise Buzz: Basel, Switzerland Day 1 Uniworld Cruises Rhine
River Cruise Buzz Sail along with me live: December 2-9, 2012 via social media This cruise promises a wonderful journey along the Rhine River on one of the best river boats on the water: Uniworld Cruises S.S. Antoinette. You can keep up in a variety of ways: Via Twitter: I will be using the #urhm…
Sailaway with Cruise Buzz: Uniworld Cruises Holiday Markets iVoyage begins
Sailaway with Cruise Buzz: Uniworld Cruises Holiday Markets iVoyage begins Where: Basel to Cologne Uniworld Cruises S.S. Antoinette Are you ready to sailaway with Cruise Buzz? Your virtual river cruise on Uniworld Cruises begins today. I have reserved you a ticket via the net so you can follow along with all the happenings. Sail…
Cruise Biz Buzz: What's Happening Online via Social Media
Social Media Roundup of Cruise News 11.30.12 Cruise Biz Buzz: What’s Happening Online via Social Media. In case you missed it, here are my top stories this week mostly inspired by what I saw online via social media updates and posts. Buzzing Most recent articles 2013 Preview of Crystal Cruises Destinations and Itineraries11/29/2012 2013 Preview…