More than 3 years ago I took my first cruise. It was a river cruise from Basel to Amsterdam. I wasn’t really sure if it would be my thing as I don’t like group travel or actually groups that much lol

Surprisingly I really enjoyed it. I love casual days watching the world go by as I sit curled up with a book. I also love the fact that on a river cruise you can usually just walk off the ship and you’re downtown in whatever city you are visiting. On this cruise only Vienna and Nürnberg weren’t walkable and Vienna had a U stop literally across the street so you could zip into town. My only regret not enough time in some of these places. However, it was a good sampler and I would definitely want to return to a few of the new places we spent some time in. We were lucky because we had a group of 6 so we had a ready made team for sightseeing, coffees , pastries and apparently Canasta games though I missed out on that.

I still haven’t done an ocean cruise but I’ll correct that in just a few weeks when we go from Singapore to Hong Kong on NCL. Not sure I’ll like that as much but I’m open. Now excuse me while I snuggle up in the lounge with a coffee and a book