Up Next on Our River Cruise Adventure: Strasbourg

I've wanted to visit Strasbourg for years, ever since I saw pictures of it all decorated for Christmas. Suffice it to say, the weather on our afternoon in this Alsatian city was decidedly un-winterlike. In fact, it was the hottest day of the trip - by far.At breakfast that morning, we learned that due to a potential lock worker strike, our time in Strasbourg would be cut short, but we vowed to make...

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Rhine River Cruise: An Afternoon in Heidelberg

In stark contrast to the stretch of Rhine we sailed through the day before, the river we woke to on our fifth official day of our river cruise aboard the AmaSiena was quite industrial, the shore lined with factories and other signs of German industry. Today, we were docked in Ludwigshafen, across the Rhine River from Mannheim (yes, as in Steamroller). Ludwigshafen is noted for being the epicenter...

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