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Catalina: A Special Deal for Those Who Would Like to Visit Midweek

October 29, 2019 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski Leave a Comment

Catalina Marina

One of the nicest things about living in Los Angeles is being by the sea. There’s nothing as healing as the ocean air. We have plenty of beaches but if you really want to get away from it all,  visit Catalina. It’s 26 miles across the sea from LA and is so easy to get to by boat. I started going to Catalina when I was a kid - a zillion years ago During the 1960s the way … [Read more...]

AmaWaterways: Christmas Market River Cruise on the Danube – Photos

August 31, 2015 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski 2 Comments

AmaWaterways Amacerto

We took a river cruise aboard the AmaWaterways Amacerto along the Danube during November and December to see the Christmas Markets.  It started in Budapest, stopping in the Austrian towns of Melk and Vienna and included excursions to Salzburg, Linz, Passau, Regensburg, and Nurnberg in Germany. After Nurnberg, we boarded a shuttle bus to Prague in the Czech Republic. To say … [Read more...]

Prague: An Alluring City of Mystery in the Czech Republic – Photos

August 30, 2015 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski 2 Comments

Prague, Czech Republic

Prague, in the Czech Republic, was our last destination on our AmaWaterways Christmas Markets river cruise on the Danube. I was sorry that we didn't book more than the 2 days there, but it turned out I had to fly out quickly for a family emergency. It's a city of Gothic arcades, Renaissance windows, Rococo cherubs, and Art Nouveau sylphs. In all I found it to be eclectic and … [Read more...]

Germany: Festive Regensburg and Nürnberg on the Danube – Photos

August 29, 2015 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski Leave a Comment

View of the Christmas Market and Cathedral in Nürnberg

While we were on an AmaWaterways river cruise, we breezed quickly through Germany but I managed to take a few noteworthy photos. We were traveling during the holidays and the theme of our cruise was the Christmas Markets. As you can imagine, there's is nowhere that captures Christmas festivity quite like Germany. We stopped briefly in several German villages but the two main … [Read more...]

Budapest: Hungarian Grandeur, Food, and the Old City of Buda – Photos

August 27, 2015 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski Leave a Comment

Baby Boomer Travel | Hungary | Parliment - Budapest

Our AmaWaterways river cruise on the Danube started in Budapest, Hungary. We had just flown in from Poland the day before where we had visited Bydgoszcz, Warsaw, and Krakow. The Hungarian capital glows on the Danube with magnificently grandiose buildings that glow golden in the dark. Read other posts from this trip: Poland Travel Photo Gallery Austria Travel … [Read more...]

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