Boarding the Skadi

< Start at the beginning of this series: Grand European River Cruise No, the boat in the photo above is not the Skadi! That is a farewell to Prague photo, taken from the Charles Bridge just two days ago. Whew!! Today was all about logistics. We delivered our luggage to a safe place in the […]

Kutna Hora

< Start at the beginning of this series: Grand European River Cruise Kutna Hora We took it easy today with only two excursions. Although the first was seven hours long, several of those hours were spent on a bus winding through the Czech countryside with beautiful farmland and gently rolling hills. A ways down the […]

Awe-Inspiring Prague: Part Two

< Start at the beginning of this series: Grand European River Cruise Panoramic Prague (cont’d) In this post, we continue our long day in Prague. After visiting the John Lennon Wall, we loaded into a motor coach and were dropped off at the entrance to the Prague Castle Complex. Since it was a dreary day and my […]

Awe-Inspiring Prague

< Start at the beginning of this series: Grand European River Cruise After a great night’s sleep, the cobblestones were calling our names. Our tour left pretty early this morning to fit in all that we had planned for the day. We may have been a tad overzealous when we reserved three excursions for today, but that’s […]

Walkabout in Prague

< Start at the beginning of this series: Grand European River Cruise We had pretty decent flights for our river cruise. Although a nonstop would have been sweet, there really is no such thing when flying into Prague, or at least not that Viking was willing to pay for with our “free” flights. Up at […]

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