Is Rotterdam an ugly city? Our local guide alluded to this on a very damp and chilly Easter Sunday morning as we left Uniworld’s River Queen and headed into the city centre. He elaborated...
Uniworld Tulips and Windmills River Cruise: Dutch excursions
Our Uniworld Tulips and Windmills cruise was a 10 day affair covering a fairly small region of the Netherlands and Belgium. This meant we had the chance to see lots of towns...
Uniworld Tulips and Windmills River Cruise: Keukenhof and Kinderdijk
When we booked our Uniworld Tulips and Windmills river cruise we realised most other passengers would be choosing this particular trip in order to see the tulips and windmills. It’s in the name,...
Uniworld Tulips and Windmills River Cruise: Amsterdam.
What better way to celebrate Dougie’s 60th birthday than a 10 day Uniworld Tulips and Windmills river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium. We’ve cruised with Uniworld before: a fabulous trip down the Seine...
How to spend a few hours in Honfleur
I don’t know what possessed us to tackle the strenuous hike from the centre of Honfleur up to Mont-Joli. It was a sweltering hot day during the heatwave of 2018. I was unsuitably dressed...
Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny in summer
It was a hot, cloudless day at the end of June. Dougie and I had already spent the morning kayaking 15km on the River Eure, a tributary of the Seine. We changed out of...
An afternoon at the Gardens of Versailles
The first stop on our U by Uniworld river cruise this summer was Conflans-Saint-Honorine. We had boarded our ship, The B, in Paris the previous day and the ship sailed overnight down the Seine...
A day in Rouen – photo tour
Rouen was one of the stops on our U by Uniworld river cruise, The Seine Experience . Our ship was moored very close to the city centre, making it easy to freely explore during...