There’s a quiet revolution happening in the river cruising sector. Whereas ocean cruising has attracted a much younger clientele over recent years, river cruising has found it hard to shake off its traditional, genteel...
Rhine-Main Cruise with Emerald Waterways: Miltenberg, Würzburg and Bamberg
After Rüdesheim our ship left the Rhine to join the River Main on its way upstream towards the Main-Danube canal. The final three days of our Emerald Waterways river cruise became a bit of...
Rhine-Main Cruise with Emerald Waterways: Rhine Gorge and Rüdesheim
Rheinstein Castle Our Rhine Cruise with Emerald Waterways began in Amsterdam with its first stop being Cologne. The ship, Emerald Star, took us upstream where the scenery of the Rhine Gorge was showcased in style on...
Rhine-Main cruise with Emerald Waterways: Cologne
We said goodbye to Amsterdam from the comfort of the on-board swimming pool, moving effortlessly along the Lower Rhine. The flat landscape reminded me of home in the Fens: big skies, broad sunsets and those...
Rhine-Main Cruise with Emerald Waterways: Amsterdam
View from glass-top canal boat tour How fabulous to start our Emerald Waterways cruise in Amsterdam, a city we had only recently fallen in love with during our short trip in October last year. After...
Our Rhine Cruise with Emerald Waterways: the ship
Dougie in front of Emerald Star For years I’ve wanted to try out a river cruise. Dougie and I promised ourselves that once Rory was at university, we would definitely give it a try....
Holding out for a Food Hero on P&O’s new ship, Britannia
Trying to recreate a luxury cruise ship within the confines of a building in the east end of London may seem like a tall order. Not if the building is Forman’s Fish Island, a...
Son’s Travel Diaries – aged 10
After sharing my rather earnest and slightly prissy travel diaries with you this week, I showed them to my son Rory. He roared with laughter and then reminded me that he completed a travel...