Every Journey Begins With A Dream

Hungary, river cruise on Danube River near Budapest Parliament A river that changes its accent every day Most rivers have a personality. The Danube has several, and it changes them constantly. Sail its length and you'll wake up in Austria, spend an afternoon in Slovakia, have dinner overlooking Hungary, and somewhere in between, realize you've lost count of how many languages you've heard in a single day. That variety is really the Danube's defining feature. Where the Rhine r

Aerial view Cologne over the Rhine River with cruise ship in Cologne, Germany. A river that looks like it was painted There's a stretch of the Rhine, somewhere between Koblenz and Rüdesheim, where the river narrows and the hillsides rise steeply on either side, and it becomes genuinely difficult to believe you're looking at something real rather than an illustration from a storybook. Castle after castle appears around each bend — some restored and gleaming, others left as dra

Danube river near the Weissenkirchen village in Lower Austria, Austria Not every river fits every traveller Ask five people why they want to take a river cruise, and you'll likely get five different answers. One person wants castles. Another wants capital cities. Someone else just wants to stop packing and unpacking every two days. All of them are right, and all of them, it turns out, might actually want a different river. The Rhine tends to reward travellers who want scenery