As We Saw It

We spent our last Swiss morning packing, then went out to have a sushi lunch nearby … the restaurant was closed. We soon discovered that most shops are closed on Sundays. Fortunately, the Turkish sandwich shop across from the hotel …

Basel (bah-zl) is the farthest one can navigate up the Rhine, so that’s where Viking told us to go to start our Rhine River cruise. To make sure we’d get there on time we decided to stay there the night …

With four full days between Ireland and the beginning of our Rhine River cruise it wasn’t hard to figure out that we should spend it in Switerland, since the boat leaves from there. The largest city nearby is Zurich, so …

We’re staying in a small family-run B&B in Ventry, a small town on Ireland’s western Dingle peninsula. The town has one restaurant and one pub, and unlike its larger, more touristed neighbor Dingle, four miles away, most of its residents …