The weather was excellent and it was most pleasurable to sit on deck with a good drink and watch history unfold while leisurely passing castles, churches, deep river gorges and numerous locks along the way.

FORBES: Watching History Unfold: A Cruise Expert Takes His First River Cruise

Each week when my internship work was done, we would sit together and watch his programs or raw tape on the video deck in his office.

FORBES: Remembering Andy Rooney and the Tiffany Network

As you sit on your top deck, nibbling aged Gouda and brown Dutch bread and sipping cold gin, you can watch canal life at eye level.

FORBES: Playing the Float