Viking River Cruise on the Rhine River: Basel to Amsterdam

I boarded the Viking River Cruise Hlin today!
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It was a bit sad leaving Freiburg as I really kind of loved the city, but I was pretty excited to be heading towards one of the viking river cruise longships in Basel. After some hard travel in Patagonia, I feel like I deserve to be pampered a little bit. I'm on assignment with them for a full week, so it will be nice to be in a little bit of luxury for a while.
For the trip, I'm on the Hlin doing the Rhine Getaway which is a Viking River Cruise from Basel to Amsterdam. It's an 8 day trip, and it should lead to lots of cool destinations and hopefully images.
My job is to vlog my experience on the trip as well as capture photos of the experience.
The trip starts in Basel, so that's basically where this vlog starts. I rolled into Basel, dropped my things off at the longship, and then went out for a bit of a wander throughout the city. I've never spent any time in Basel before, so it was cool to wander around. It's a really cool town, actually. I need to add it to my list of places to go back to. When I got back to the boat, I gave a bit of a tour of my stateroom.
Unfortunately, as I got back on the longship, it started pouring rain. As we set sail from Basel to Amsterdam, the rain just crushed us. But, being a bit of a trooper, and wanting to capture our departure, I went out to the front of the ship to film.
This Viking River Cruise on the Rhine is going to be a lot of fun, actually. There are a number of other photographers and journalists on board doing reviews and vlogging their experiences, so it should be cool. Always nice to hang out with some other people in the industry, I'm looking forward to seeing their reviews and the work they come up with here on the Rhine.
Tomorrow, the Hiln and I roll into Breisag, Germany and we'll explore the Black Forest and Colmar, France, so stay tuned for that Viking River Cruise vlog!