It’s not often a river boat captain serenades his passengers. But on our recent Rhine River cruise, it was a poignant moment when First Captain Eddy Poppema shared a ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great thrills is ...

Europe is filled with castles that once belonged to royalty, knights, and nobles, and now, some of them open their grand doors to travelers looking for a stay that feels straight out of a storybook.

Experience the stunning Rhine Gorge with breathtaking drone footage capturing its dramatic cliffs, medieval castles, and the ...

In Germany’s Rhine Valley, several centuries-old castles sit just minutes from one another, and visiting them can be particularly enjoyable as the foliage changes color in the fall. Rheinstein, ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great thrills is ...

Joined by our neighbors Cathie and Dennis Chilcote and Gloria and Dan Haury, my wife, Shirley, and I embraced a wonderful history lesson on an eight-day Rhine River cruise that abounded in castles and ...

One of the first items I received after I moved to Germany two years ago was a poster of the “top 25 castles in Europe.” My itineraries for many subsequent excursions around the Continent were set ...

Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry and grab a chair. With the last passenger barely aboard, the gangplank is ...