Europe

Vacation

June 20, 2025

Grant Dean

We all must work but taking time for vacation for me is a necessity to recharge and remember life is full of adventure. This past year was an anomaly and took several years in the making, but my wife and I were able to go to Europe on a Viking River Cruise from Paris to Prague to celebrate our 16-year anniversary. It was an amazing trip. Highly recommend Viking Cruise lines. It was interesting how everyone smoked in Paris and if you were not smoking you, were a tourist. I told my wife, "We need to buy cigarettes to blend in." She did not have any of that. In addition, it was nice to see how tipping was not expected and if you did tip it was not the suggested 18-25% you see pop up everywhere here but it was 10-15% at the highest