If you've hit a brick wall on special-occasion or holiday gift ideas for your mom, grandma, or older female friends, you'll enjoy this gift guide. It can be a challenging task because older women often have accumulated too much stuff over the years and are looking for practical things they can truly use. The gifts I have picked out below will work for any occasion, including … [Read more...]
Best of Boomer Blogs: Getting Into the Holiday Spirit
Our Baby Boomer bloggers are deep into thinking about the holidays with only 2 weeks left until Christmas. They are discussing shopping ideas, food, and spending money. But the ever-present COVID situation is still in the background causing us to tweak how we celebrate. So, let’s first address the elephant in the room or the elf on the shelf Tom from Sightings Over Sixty … [Read more...]
AmaWaterways River Cruise: The Christmas Markets on the Danube
If you have never seen the Christmas Markets during the winter in Europe, you should put it on your bucket list. We took an AmaWaterways River cruise on the Danube during late November and early December. It started in Budapest, stopping in Melk, Vienna, and Salzberg, in Austria, and then Linz, Passau, Regensburg, and Nurnberg in Germany. After Nurnberg, we boarded a … [Read more...]
Visit Prague in Winter When it Sparkles With Light
Our last destination on our AmaWaterways Christmas Markets river cruise on the Danube was Prague in the Czech Republic. It's a gleaming city of Gothic arcades, Renaissance windows, Rococo cherubs, and Art Nouveau sylphs. Find a local guide in Prague, here. The cruise company booked us into the Old Town Hilton in Prague, which was lovely. Generally, I prefer small, … [Read more...]
Celebrate Christmas in Germany on the Danube
While we were on an AmaWaterways river cruise, we breezed quickly through Bavaria, in Germany, but I managed to take a few noteworthy photos. We were traveling during the holidays, and the theme of our cruise was the Christmas Markets. As you can imagine, there's nowhere that captures Christmas festivity quite like Germany. We stopped briefly in several German villages, but … [Read more...]