The Amateur Traveler talks about his recent fam cruise on the Avalon Luminary down the Rhine River from Basel in Switzerland through France and Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Along the ...

While on our Rhine River cruise we took a side trip into the Alsace outside of Strasbourgh to one of the local wineries where we tried the local wine. This shot is ...

The stain glass windows in the Strasbourg cathedral have pictures of the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. These two windows show Otto I and Otto II. Although the cathedral suffered damage ...

I love these little French restaurants with their daily specials written on chalk boards. I love eating there and I love taking pictures of them.

Obernai is a beautiful walled town in the Alsace region of France (formerly the Alsace-Lorraine region of Germany, formerly…). The city hall sits on the town square.

This Rose Window is one of the largest in Europe and comes from the cathedral in Strasbourg which is the capital of the Alsace province. Alsace was German for more years that ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Christine Cantera about her time living in the Languedoc region of France in the city Montpellier. Montpellier is sometimes called the San Francisco of France. Christine shares ...

On our most recent trip to Europe we took the train from Paris to Geneva. Flying would also have been an option but there are some good reasons why a train ride ...

In April on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I had a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Notre Dame” is from David Elwood David says: I was visiting Notre ...

Institut du Monde Arabe (Institut of the Arab world), located in Paris’ 5th arrondissement, is at once museum, library and cultural centre. A Franco-Arab project, it also hosts a Lebanese panoramic rooftop ...