I’ve been knocking around the world for half a century, on land and sea, but never really focused on the U.K., figuring it was too tame, had one too many cathedrals and everybody spoke English with ...

This is the last in a three-part series on cruising the British Isles. After beginning in Viking Cruises’ home port of Bergen, Norway, we’ve travelled to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Ireland.

The cruise tour company Viking was founded in 1997 with a focus on providing travelers with culturally immersive travel ...

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Tour includes sites named for a mythical giant in Ireland, ‘the greatest castle never built’ in Wales and one of the finest gardens in Ireland. This is the second in a three-part series on a Viking ...

But here I am on a Viking cruise, aptly named the British Isles Explorer, suddenly wondering what took me so long to get here. In the early years, I hung out in Asia with alleged headhunters and ...