Tag: HOW-TO PLAN FOR EURO TRAVEL
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COME SAIL AWAY
Last May, I had the chance to leave my husband and hormonal teen daughters behind (darn!) and sail with a friend on the Rhine Getaway, one of Viking’s most popular river cruise itineraries. The plan? We’d sail on the Rhine through Germany from the gateway city of Basel, Switzerland, to Amsterdam on the Viking Hlin (pronounced…
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HOW TO NOT GET HACKED ON VACATION
Traveling comes with enough logistics to juggle. The last thing you need on a trip is hours wasted on the phone with the police or with your bank trying to stop someone who is pretending to be you on the other side of the world. These days thieves don’t need to steal your stuff. They…
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CHECKLIST FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
I was 16 years old when I first crossed the Atlantic. Headed to Florence, Italy, I visited my sister studying abroad there. It was marvelous. My sister planned my entire time, as she’d been there for the past few months. She toured my dad and I around with ease, relaying the knowledge that she’d learned…