Year: 2022
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Holiday Greetings
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So, I decided to take a pause from blogging so we can enjoy the holidays with friends and family. We’ll continue to tell our stories covering the last segment of our adventures in Jerusalem, Egypt and Jordan next year. The pictures below are a teaser for our…
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Bonjour, Paris!
Day 35 & 36 – Aug 23 to 24, 2022 This would be our third visit to Paris in the past two weeks. If you missed my previous posts, click here and here. Our early morning departure from Viking Heimdal and the 2.5 hour TGV train trip back to Paris went very smoothly. This time we were…
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Lyon to Avignon, France
Day 27-33, Aug 16- 22,2022 It was a leisurely 2-hour trip from Paris to Lyon, where we boarded Viking Heimdal. Below is the map of our two combined France cruises. We were now going on the second segment from Lyon to Avignon, cruising on the Rhone River: Lyon, France Lyon is the 3rd largest city…
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Heading back to Paris
Day 25-27, Aug 14-16, 2022 After 2 nights in Rouen, the base for our Normandy Excursion, we set sail early in the morning for our next stop at Les Andelys before returning to Paris. The cruise was now heading upstream on the Seine River, which at 482 miles is the second-longest river in France. It…
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Paris to Normandy
Day 20-25; Aug 9-14, 2022 We are publishing this post today, Nov 11, 2022, with thoughts of all military veterans. To all the veterans out there… we salute you! Thank you for your service and sacrifice! Our flight from Stockholm to Paris was fairly smooth, that is after we spent an hour standing in line…
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Homelands Cruise – Stockholm, Sweden
Day 19 – Aug 8 End of Homelands Cruise This segment of our travels wound down on Day 19, which began with a 5-day pre-extension tour in Iceland. If you want to see that, click here and then select “next” after each post to continue reading those stories. Our last port stop of the Homelands…
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Homelands Cruise – Karlskrona, Sweden
This port stop was another substitution on our original itinerary, for we were scheduled to stop at Tallin, Estonia. We all know who the culprit is for that. OK, end of rant 😉 Anyhow, Karlskrona is a coastal and naval city located in the picturesque archipelago of the southern Swedish province of Blekinge. Did you know…
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Homelands Cruise – GdaÅ„sk, Poland
Day 16 – Aug 5, 2022 If you’re like us, you probably haven’t heard much about GdaÅ„sk, Poland unless you’re a history buff. We only knew it was one of the stops on our itinerary, but we were pleasantly surprised when we arrived. Hopefully by the time you finish reading this post you’ll agree it’s…
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Homelands Cruise – Berlin, Germany
Day 15 – Aug 3, 2022 We got up super-early for our 12-hour excursion in Berlin. A long day, but it was a whopping 150 miles from our port at Warnemunde to the city. Viking chartered a train since most of the ship’s passengers (over 470 of us) were going to Berlin with some extending to…
