Bridge on the left with cathedral spires in the middle of the picture

A Great Day in Cologne, Germany

Day three of our Rhine River Cruise brought us to Cologne, Germany. This was a busy day in which we did three tours, and also my favorite day of the cruise. The boat docked in Zons, Germany, and we all disembarked and loaded into buses. It turns out buses move faster than the river boat, […]

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Series of windmills along the bank

Windmills of Kinderdijk

Day two of our Rhine River cruise started with a stop in Kinderdijk, a province of South Holland, Netherlands. Kinderdijk is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its network of 19 windmills, built-in the 1700s. The windmills are still in operation today, and were designed to move water, as part of the flood-management system.

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