The Cruise Report With Cruise Specialists Cruise Reporter Ralph Grizzle

One of the great advantages of cruise ships is that experts frequently travel with you to help explain what you are seeing and visiting. When cruising in culturally significant places like Europe or in natural wonderlands like Alaska, the cruise lines will schedule sessions with experts who can add meaning and understanding to the visit.

AMA Waterways’ Amacello departs Budapest tonight at 10 p.m. for a seven-night cruise that ends in Nuremberg, Germany.

Posted are links to photos of Budapest taken on December 28. Click here to launch a Flickr slideshow.

Chris, a young contractor who did some work on my home last summer, told me about his most memorable cruise. It came as a result of a question he had asked his wife: “What’s your dream?”

“A Caribbean cruise,” she replied. It was a dream that Chris was determined to make come true: his wife, suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, had only a few months longer to live.