Karen’s Travel Blog

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  • Cruising season 2026

    What do they say about timing flying when you are having fun? It seems as though our 6 months sojourn in Melbourne had only begun and we were planning our return trip to our Joie de Vivre in Europe. Our 2026 cruising season started when we hosted the DBA flag day get together on the… Read more

  • Rising in France the Meuse meanders its way through France and Belgium before draining into the North Sea in the Netherlands. Its total length is 925 km. The river navigable over a substantial part of its length. In Belgium and the Netherlands it is part of an extensive inland navigation infrastructure connecting the Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Antwerp port… Read more