BUDAPEST — Moonbeams danced playfully on the surface of the Danube, competing with reflections from Budapest’s myriad lights, as the Viking Egil cruised unhurriedly past stately 19th-century architecture and impressive monuments in Hungary’s capital city, adoringly called The Queen City of the Danube.

PRAGUE – The landscape is lush. Inviting. A panoply of sizes, shapes and colours neatly stitched together in a seamless portrait reminiscent of early Flemish paintings