Happy New Year! Another year and a whole lot of traveling and never enough time to get all of my posts up. Some might call me a procrastinator, but I call myself more of a perfectionist with a little OCD who often finds herself stuck in the middle of everyday life trying to find ways… Read More
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” It’s that time of year again and that can only mean one thing: Time to bake Christmas cookies. This year I was inspired by the Danube River cruise I took this summer and decided I needed to bake some traditional German cookies. On the second day of my cruise… Read More
After a week’s worth of fun onboard Viking Atla on our Romantic Danube cruise, the time had come for our cruise to come an end in Budapest. While our journey started in Nuremberg (Erlangen to be exact) a few days before we boarded Viking Atla, we enjoyed the days we spent sailing along the Danube River in Germany, Austria, and… Read More
The world famous New York Café Budapest (New York Kávéház) is located on the Erzsébet körút section of the Grand Boulevard of Budapest and is considered one of the best and most beautiful cafés in the world. The building itself was originally constructed from 1892-94 as the Hungarian offices of the New York Life Insurance Company. The Italian… Read More
It’s day six onboard Viking Atla on our Romantic Danube river cruise and our first morning in Budapest, the capital and largest city in Hungary. Measuring just over 202 square miles, the unification of Buda on the west bank and Pest on the east bank occurred in 1873. Many consider Budapest to be the most beautiful… Read More
After nearly 24 hours in Vienna, the time came for Viking Atla to head toward Budapest and unfortunately, that meant for us the end of our cruise and time onboard. Although we wished we had more time to explore this great city, we were looking forward to our dinner on the Danube as we departed Vienna. We… Read More
For day 6 of my Viking River Cruises “Romantic Danube” river cruise, we were going to spend another day in Austria. You know what that means – a day of sightseeing in Vienna. So much to see and do in such a short time, but come along with me to visit some of the historic sights of… Read More
Day 6 Onboard Viking Atla in Vienna, Austria Can you believe I had the opportunity to wake up in Vienna, Austria today? This is day 6 onboard Viking Atla in Vienna, Austria with Viking River Cruises. Just look at that skyline and sunrise. Amazing! If you’re standing along the Danube River, this might be the view… Read More
As we sailed down the Danube River from Melk to Vienna onboard Viking Atla on the fifth day of our river cruise, we prepared for our evening arrival into Vienna at around 6:30 pm. My first view of Vienna was one that looked like it was almost unreal and yet at the same time, a… Read More
After departing Melk, we started sailing along the Wachau Valley on Viking Atla toward Vienna. The stretch of the Danube between Krems and Melk is known as “the Wachau ” locally and is considered the loveliest part of the river. This could be why in December 2000 “Wachau Cultural Landscape” was entered in the UNESCO… Read More
