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The Greek Islands<br />
With more than 6,000 Greek islands<br />
peppering the Aegean and Ionian<br />
seas, it’s no surprise that islandhopping<br />
cruises around Greece are<br />
some of the most popular cruises<br />
around. This is a corner of the world<br />
made for exploring by ship.<br />
<strong>St</strong>art in Athens and spend your first<br />
couple of days exploring the capital<br />
before embarking on your journey.<br />
Top cruise destinations include<br />
Mykonos with its waterside cocktail<br />
bars and white-sand beaches, Rhodes with its Old Town<br />
and uninterrupted swathes of sand, and Santorini, where<br />
the sunsets are world-renowned. Many cruises will also<br />
take you to the archipelago’s lesser known islands too,<br />
Chania and Thessaloniki being good examples.<br />
European Rivers<br />
For bags of culture, river cruising is a great option. Two<br />
popular cruising choices are the Rhine, which flows from<br />
Basel, Switzerland, to Amsterdam, passing primarily<br />
through Germany along the way, or the stretch of the<br />
Danube between Budapest and Passau, Germany, that<br />
runs primarily through Austria.<br />
A cruise here will make you feel like you’ve walked straight<br />
into one of David Attenborough’s documentaries. Sail<br />
past gigantic glaciers, snap photographs of sea lions from<br />
the ship, take a shore excursion to see brown bears and<br />
witness breaching whales; the cruise itineraries around<br />
Alaska’s largely untamed landscape are hard to beat. You<br />
can also expect visits to Alaska’s state capital of Juneau,<br />
only reachable by air or by water, Glacier Bay National<br />
Park, and Skagway, a compact city saturated with history<br />
from the Gold Rush era.<br />
Cruises along the Rhine and the Danube meander<br />
through a mix of big city culture, small town sleepiness<br />
and a few stretches of genuine rural scenery. On the<br />
Rhine, the big cultural capitals are energetic Amsterdam<br />
and Cologne, with <strong>St</strong>rasbourg and Basel also included,<br />
whilst on the Danube, you have Budapest and Vienna.<br />
The Caribbean<br />
The Caribbean’s wealth of white-sand beaches washed<br />
by turquoise seas make it an incredibly popular cruise<br />
destination for sun-seekers.<br />
Thanks to the islands’ close proximity, you could be<br />
snorkelling with turtles in Tobago one day and dancing<br />
to reggae beats in Jamaica the next. Although equally<br />
colourful, each island has its own distinct character,<br />
meaning there’s enough to please wildlife lovers, history<br />
enthusiasts, foodies and anyone who just wants to laze<br />
on the beach.<br />
Alaska<br />
Coined ‘The Last Frontier’, Alaska is the USA’s most<br />
sparsely populated state – and its wildest.<br />
Beautifully furnished<br />
<strong>St</strong>one Cottage<br />
Holiday Let<br />
– sleeps up to 4<br />
Situated near Sedbergh,<br />
in the Yorkshire Dales,<br />
and also within easy<br />
reach of the Lake District<br />
Children & pets welcome<br />
Call 01942 216 058<br />
www.millthropcottage.co.uk
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