Brenda and Kemm's travels

Cologne, Koblenz – Germany

We arrived in Cologne in Germany on Tue 28 Sept mid morning having left the Netherlands behind. Then left the ship for a guided walking tour around the city. Guided walking tours are all planned extremely well on these cruise boats – each of us has a earphone headpiece which …

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London to Arnhem

A day spent travelling from London to Arnhem in The Netherlands meant a lot of time gazing out into the countryside and just taking note of the changing landscape.Leaving London meant travelling by Eurostar train under the English Channel – a whole 20 minutes in which you wouldn’t even know …

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Arrival in London

Landed safely in London after 3 long flights but did manage to get some sleep along the way fortunately. The flight from Brisbane to Singapore was one of the best we’ve ever done for that sector – almost bump free and extremely ‘smooth sailing’ as they say. That was 7 …

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Cruising the Rhine

Rhine Valley – September 29 Expecting a full`day of cruising the Rhine today with the Rhine Valley being the most photographic area along the way. Have managed to get the very front chairs in the lounge on our ship “MS Amabella” so we have a lovely view of both left …

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The Rhine Gorge and Rudesheim

Today was what we referred to as ‘Castle Day” – a section of the Rhine River where all the fabulous and very old castles are situated high on the adjoining hills. All very picturesque of course so a million photos taken by all on board. Our weather for this particular …

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London

Well we’ve done much of what we had (or hadn’t) planned to do here in London including all the usual sightseeing bits: Bought a 2 day ticket on the hop on hop off bus and basically did a straight circuit first day then the next day once we had our …

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Paris

Our 4 days in paris is now over and we are on the way back up to Amsterdam to meet up with our cruise boat to take us down the Rhine to Budapest.Paris is a fabulously city with streets lined with open air cafes and restaurants everywhere. The bread served …

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12 days in Las Vegas

It’s now time to head home after a very fast paced 12 days here in Vegas. We’ve played 4 rounds of golf in over 36 degree heat – one day was 40 at least we are certain!!!! We’ve flown up to the Grand Canyon in a light plane, taken a …

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Las Vegas 2

Time is flying by here – have now played 2 days of golf on the Bali Hai and The Royal Links Golf courses – both beautiful courses and not sure of a daily fee if we had to pay that but all part of our package so not worried. But …

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