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Our European Travel Theme page sponsor
is European Waterways Ltd, a respected
company offering luxury barging on 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.
Click on the image buttons or titles below to enter each richly-illustrated feature story.
Tom Koppel shares his up and down adventures with Switzerland's amazing transportation options throughout the country, ranging from trains on dizzying trestles and spiral tunnels to funiculars and gondolas. One convenient Swiss Pass allows visitors to experience them all and the fabulous vistas they offer for discount prices.
Britain is one of the world's most popular places for cultural and historical travelas well as rural adventures, but it is rarely associated with enriching travel on a limited budget. Here are ten tips that will change your mind about that with insider strategies to enjoy all that this exciting country has to offer.
Join Richard Blackburn on a self-guided narrow boat exploration of the Trent & Mersey Canal in the North Midlands of England. Britain's network of historic canals is an adventurous treat for senior vacationers like Richard and his wife, Jan, who navigated their 45-foot-long, 7-foot-wide narrow boat through some incredibly tight spaces, many locks and beautiful English countryside..
Take a drive with Julie Ferguson through a region of Provence that captivated two great artists, Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso. The author planned a self-drive route that offers our readers an insightful glimpse of what these artists experienced and why this small part of France became a part of their artistic inspiration.
Step aboard an elegant river cruise ship with Travel with a Challenge editor, Alison Gardner, to sample a week of stimulating exploration along the Rhone and Saône Rivers from Arles in southern Provence, through Lyon and on to Chalon sur Saône in southern Burgundy. Every day the 130 guests have much to see and do!
Join Travel with a Challenge editor, Alison Gardner on a classic cruise adventure, barging the picturesque Canal du Nivernais from Clamecy to Auxerre, while sampling the region's distinctive cuisine and enjoying daily excursions to historic chateaux, medieval towns and wine tastings en route.
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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