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 thrills is ...

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 thrills is ...

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 thrills is ...

This was the day the cruise was made for – the 41.63-mile stretch Middle Rhine Valley designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site of “outstanding universal value.” Of the approximately 40 castles (or ...

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.

Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry and grab a chair. With the last passenger barely aboard, the gangplank is ...

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 thrills is ...

“Oh, look, there’s another one,” cried the woman behind me. She could not contain her excitement at seeing yet another castle perched on a hillside. The Sun Deck of the Scenic Opal proved the perfect ...

Few rivers in Europe evoke as much fairy-tale charm as the Rhine, winding past vineyards, hilltops, and historic towns while hosting more castles than any other river on the continent. Stretching some ...