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Home > Travel Themes > European Travel Articles
Our European Travel Theme page sponsor
is European Waterways Ltd, a respected
company luxury barging the magical waterways of Scotland, Ireland, England,
France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Italy for an
impressive 36 years. The company’s fleet of gourmet-catered,
beautifully-appointed hotel barges moves at a calm, majestic pace allowing
guests to truly experience a country’s character
from within.
Welcome
to our Travel Theme page showcasing Travel with a Challenge's
feature article collection of European destinations, taking
you from Scotland, Ireland and England through many countries on the continent
of Europe as well. These stories provide exciting travel windows on cultures
and countries, cruising and barging, nature and wildlife holidays,
and active adventure vacations suitable for the senior traveler. You haven't finished exploring Europe until you have also visited our Mediterranean articles theme page.
Click on the image buttons or titles below to enter each richly-illustrated
feature story.
An amazing century of African-American art, music, and literary genius is alive and well and living in Paris as Julia Browne shares in this fascinating article. Join her at the favorite cafés, residential hotels, jazz clubs, and Paris soirées where history is highlighted and the legacy lives on for new visitors to enjoy.
Every two years, Brussels lays out a massive begonia carpet with a dazzling original design encompassing 700,000 flowers for a three-day festival. You will appreciate our photo essay which celebrates Belgium's special flower and encourages readers to be there in August to join the festive atmosphere!
With
a Lapland reindeer herder as guide, adventure travel writer, Margie
Goldsmith, spends a day in Finland’s forest wilderness 230 miles/370
kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. She learns
about this longstanding economic lifeline for the Sami people, and discovers
new challenges to such a traditional way of life in the 21st century.
Join
three Canadian seniors for a challenging 15-day walk across the skinny
part of northern England, and discover other delights with our author, Steve
Sullivan, as he quenches
his thirst with England’s finest, most colorfully-named beer brews
at historic pubs sprinkled along the route. 192 miles
with luggage van assistance and accommodation booking service will ease
the challenge.
Until 1992, it was only a fabulous dream to river cruise uninterrupted from Amsterdam on the North Sea to Vienna, never mind follow the Danube all the way to the Black Sea. Today it still remains a rare possibility which Alison Gardner recounts for readers from her own experience in 2007. Don't miss your chance to do this extraordinary adventure delivered in classic river cruise style!
Stepping away from the glamour and glitz long associated with the Côte d’Azur, join guidebook author, Florence Chatzigianis, for a very personal exploration of the mountain footpaths, local islands, medieval villages, and dramatic shorelines that encourage active vacationers to experience a magical Mediterranean region from the mountains to the sea.
Explore the Scottish Highlands from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea
on a one-week barge cruise through the Caledonian Canal, Loch Ness
and other lakes [lochs] of the deeply-chiseled Great Glen. There
will be heather-clad hills and clan castles that reflect this ancient
land’s
colorful history, and the famous Scotch whiskey is guaranteed to
be on the educational agenda too!
Vienna,
Austria is one of Europe’s most fascinating cultural, historic
and musical cities, but it can also be an expensive place to linger as
long as this destination deserves. Here are ten “low budget” tips
for exploring this relaxed, accessible city of music, museums, coffeehouses
and desserts. Also discover how you may enjoy a
rewarding day with Mozart around this extraordinary city of music.
Warren
Rovetch is back with another independent travel book of inspiration
and tips for "the Mobile but Not Agile". His explorations of
Ireland's counties Clare, Kerry and West Cork are humorous, challenging,
educational and adventurous, proving that attitude, not age, is everything!
Seniors, Ron and
Adelle Milavsky, share their adventurous explorations of Britain and Continental
Europe by recreational vehicle, saving plenty of money and enjoying a flexibility
that more programmed travel does not permit. They wrote the book on it!
NEW CONTENT AND IMAGES FOR ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR
FEATURE ARTICLES EVER! Explore Europe's diverse cultures, cuisines, countrysides
and historic towns from the unique perspective of a water-based vacation. Ranging
from all-inclusive luxury hotel barges to self-skippered canal boats and barges,
learn about operators who deliver memorable experiences in style.
Tag along on one of the Sierra Club's International Outings as author, Elizabeth
Pomeroy, shares her culturally-rich two-week walking tour through Britain's
picturesque and always-popular Cotswold region.
Explore Scottish highland history and ancient
archaeology, encounter nature up close, and learn about environmental challenges
at Scotland's Aigas Field Centre, where hosts, Sir John Lister-Kaye and
his wife, Lady Lucy, offer warm, personal hospitality to guests staying on their
historic property.
Independent travel writer, Bruce Northam, shares his adventurous experiences
and innermost thoughts while hitchhiking in Ireland with his Mom and sharing
a walk across England with his Dad.
A tragic death is the catalyst for a journey of healing and discovery to the
Aran Islands and County Clare, shared by American travel journalist, Peter
Aiken, and two generations of his family.
Donna Carter shares her week-long hiking and Irish cultural history tour
along Northern Ireland's coast, where she discovers that it is possible for
a self-proclaimed sedentary soul to get fit as well as wear out a pair of
boots.
Join Elderhostel veteran, Mona Magnis, on an educational vacation in
Britain as she follows in the footsteps of literary legends, Thomas Hardy, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen and James Herriott and discovers how their
landscapes influenced their famous stories.
Join the author of The Creaky Traveler, Warren Rovetch, on an
intimate driving holiday through the North West Highlands of Scotland where
encounters with nature and the region's unique culture are an entertaining part
of "A Journey for the Mobile but Not Agile".
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