Waltzing On The Blue DanubeViking Cruises allows you to take advantage of that access, offering a great way to see some of those terrific destinations. Its cruise along the Danube starts at Budapest, ...

We were three days into a Danube cruise, and a city tour was next on the itinerary. But for my husband and me and perhaps 15 other hardy passengers, there was no coach bus waiting on shore.

The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe and has been a central part of the continent's history for centuries, as ...

Water cleanses: it washes blood from stone, tears from skin, sins from memory. But it also conceals. It swallows names, ...

You’d better be hooked on “The Blue Danube” waltz if you’re planning to visit Vienna. There’s no escaping Johann Strauss II’s tune, which premiered in 1867.

Kelheim, Germany, lies near the end of the Main-Danube Canal. The Weltenburg Abbey, located near the northern end of the Danube gorge, was founded in 600 A.D.

His young English-speaking expatriates land not in picture-perfect “cash lavished” Prague but in Budapest, “this God-forsaken paprika-stained Austrian test-market,” also known, more ...

The beauty of the Danube River enchanted Northwestern alumni on the NAA’s Romance of the Blue Danube trip this past September. Travelers enjoyed leisurely days cruising the river and taking in the ...

Strauss recalled a poem by Karl Isidor Beck (1817-79). Each stanza ends with the line: ‘By the Danube, beautiful blue Danube’. It gave him the inspiration and the title for his new work – although the ...