It’s an outstanding voyage through four countries – the Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland – highlighted by a ...

The four-hour passage through the gorge was the highlight of a week-long Rhine River cruise in June on the Australian-owned Scenic Opal, a 169-passenger luxury ship that was launched in 2015.

I was loafing on the ship’s sun deck — looking at my Long Rhine Tour strip map, which identifies every village and city, every castle, and bridge and ferry crossing the river’s 820-mile ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great ...

The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human involvement with a dramatic and varied natural landscape.