Waltzing On The Blue DanubeViking Cruises allows you to take advantage of that access, offering a great way to see some of those terrific destinations. Its cruise along the Danube starts at Budapest, ...

Water cleanses: it washes blood from stone, tears from skin, sins from memory. But it also conceals. It swallows names, ...

We were three days into a Danube cruise, and a city tour was next on the itinerary. But for my husband and me and perhaps 15 other hardy passengers, there was no coach bus waiting on shore.

You’d better be hooked on “The Blue Danube” waltz if you’re planning to visit Vienna. There’s no escaping Johann Strauss II’s tune, which premiered in 1867.

One of the few places in Columbus still serving liver and onions is about to close its doors. The Blue Danube, a hangout near Ohio State University since 1940, will go dark June 17 as the landlord … ...

The beauty of the Danube River enchanted Northwestern alumni on the NAA’s Romance of the Blue Danube trip this past September. Travelers enjoyed leisurely days cruising the river and taking in the ...

His young English-speaking expatriates land not in picture-perfect “cash lavished” Prague but in Budapest, “this God-forsaken paprika-stained Austrian test-market,” also known, more ...

Strauss recalled a poem by Karl Isidor Beck (1817-79). Each stanza ends with the line: ‘By the Danube, beautiful blue Danube’. It gave him the inspiration and the title for his new work – although the ...

Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, “The Blue Danube” evokes the elegance of 19th-century imperial Vienna, which lives on in the city’s roaring ball season.