Summer finds cruise ships probing fjords off Norway and Sweden. The scenery could be on the Inside Passage and the Scandinavian crews are perhaps the best in the world. Prices are, unfortunately, high. But Baltic cruise liners must compete with less expensive ferry boats. Most cruises include visits to Leningrad and Moscow.

Cruise the Aegean and you enter the Classical world. Louis says, “No other spot on earth offers such a remarkable combination of history and scenery.” Many combine these cruises with a visit to Egypt and a Nile voyage. Security does not seem a problem at this date.

Of course, this only scratches the surface of the cruising world. You can cruise to the Galapagos, Antarctica or, I’m told, even the Falkland Islands. Australia and New Zealand show up on cruise routes too.

If you cruise often you know the pleasures of cruise ships. If you do not, there’s no better time than now to take a Hawaiian, Alaskan or Mexican cruise to sample the luxury life afloat. If you carefully select your first cruise it seems certain that you will cruise again. I know I did!

Arts & Culture, History
Cruises, European