It happened on the Silver Wind in the summer of 1997. Actually a large luxury yacht with 296 guests and 212 employees. It was the first...

US Americans sit on it, or wash their hands in it. The sanitary ware from the Kohler company. After my first contract with Royal Viking Line, I flew out from San Francisco, USA. Correct, I sat on a toilet bowl from Kohler at the airport. I noticed the name, as it is very common in our valley. Representative for all emigrants from the Bregenzerwald valley, Austria, I have put together this blog. I wanted to investigate why these people left home at that time, took on endless h

In the summer of 1991, I started working as a hotel director for the Seabourn cruise line. The Norwegian private shipowner Atle...

This blog is about the soul music from the United States and especially about the Funk Brothers. These studio musicians have composed and...

Even though I studied business management, first and foremost I am a trained cook. I also startet on the Royal Viking Star as a cook on...

First time I boarded the Royal Viking Sky in Barcelona, Spain on the 22. of August 1985. By that time I was a well established Food &...

In my twenty years on the seven seas I have been able to visit many beautiful places on this earth. But Alaska remains a very special...

The Royal Viking Star had by no means visited all the former theaters of war in the South Pacific yet. So let's continue our journey in...

The Royal Viking Star visited islands in the South Pacific, most of us have probably never heard of. These were bloody theatres of war...