Our seventh Viking River Cruise was the "Portraits of Southern France" on board the Viking Neptune a comfortable, spacious vessel of similar design to the Viking Spirit which we had sailed on on the "Tulips and Windmill's cruise the previous year.

Our cabin, one of the 63 deluxe cabins (there are oonly 12 standard cabins)was light and spacious, 170 sq ft, with a comfortable hotel-style bed, a panoramic style window and more than adequate storage.

We did the no fly rail option travelling by Eurostar from London to Lille and TGV from Lille to Avignon returning from Chalon-sur-Sa'ne to Paris where a very personable Viking rep met us and took us by coach across Paris to Paris Nord for the Eurostar trip back to London. Read more