Today I’d go … on a cruise down the Danube
News from STLtoday.com:

As part of my job as travel editor, I am bombarded with news releases asking me to write about this destination, that resort, this cruise, that bus excursion. Many, many of them are convincing enough to make me daydream of going there.

This week’s pick is no different. It’s an 8-day “Gems of the Danube” all-inclusive river cruise from Scenic Cruises.

From the email:

Scenic Cruises guests are immersed in the historically rich cities of Germany, charmed by Austria’s romantic settings, and explore Hungary’s thriving capital city of Budapest on the eight-day “Gems of the Danube” river cruise aboard the company’s deluxe “Space-Ships.” In addition to these three countries, guests have the choice to visit the medieval Czech town of Cesky Krumlov and Slovakia’s capital city of Bratislava on two of the many optional excursions that are included as standard on all of the company’s cruises – the only major river cruise line to offer as standard that which is additional on other lines.

The company’s “no hidden costs” policy m…………… continues on STLtoday.com

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Taking the Kids -
News from on an un-cruise cruise – Chicago Tribune:

For once, we’re masters of our own destiny — in paradise, no less.

Really.

Now if we can just survive the week of togetherness!

My far-flung gang has come to the British Virgin Islands — the undisputed Sailing Capital of the World — for a week aboard a chartered Moorings sailboat (www.moorings.com). It is the first time my husband and I and our three kids (plus my daughter Reggie’s boyfriend) have been in the same place at the same time in more than a year. My youngest daughter has just returned from a semester abroad; Reggie and Dan live and work in San Francisco; my son works and attends graduate school in New York. My husband and I live in Connecticut.

I was desperate to figure out a way to get us all together away from home in a place we’d all enjoy. A sailing trip was their top pick — we’d happily done it before. The British Virgin Islands (www.bvitourism.com) have long been popular with sailors because of the constant winds and the fact that you are ra…………… continues on on an un-cruise cruise – Chicago Tribune

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