Float past clifftop castles, storybook villages, and vineyards on this European riverboat cruise that highlights the best of ...

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 ...

From steaming hot dumplings to smoky regional sausages, Sandy Cadiz-Smith discovers the best of European gastronomy on a ...

Flowing from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine River connects six countries and fuels one of the world’s most ...

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, ...

There are tens of thousands of castles in Germany. Here are ten of our favorites that you can visit—or maybe even book as ...

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 ...