(Itineraries 1-2: Oslo Norway, itineraries 3-4: Skagen Denmark. Actual: Copenhagen until noon – then at sea)
Un. Be. Lieveable.
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April 23: Copenhagen Denmark and embarkation
Our tour guide is Ioanna (“Joanna”). She’s taken on touring as a second career post-COVID.
She does it well.
Continue reading “April 23: Copenhagen Denmark and embarkation”Getting there
The plan
Getting to this voyage starts pretty far back, making it a long and circuitous route to get here. This was to have been our cruise in Summer 2020. Obviously that did not happen.
But it came around again, more or less, as life – for the vaccinated and willing-to-be-masked – returned to something more like normal.
Continue reading “Getting there”Testing the waters
We’d been scanning the options for a while, but had not been willing to pursue a trip.
Continue reading “Testing the waters”Travels Revisited: Malaysia
It was one of the last stops on the cruise. Last December, 2019. Very soon going anywhere was going to stop being a thing.
Continue reading “Travels Revisited: Malaysia”Travels Revisited: Iceland
It’s dark when I arrive. It’s dark most of the day, actually. December in Iceland only gets only a few hours of daylight.
Continue reading “Travels Revisited: Iceland”Travels Revisited: Vietnam
It’s December 2019. Just before Christmas. Just before the world will change quite dramatically.
Continue reading “Travels Revisited: Vietnam”Bonus post: Changes to Travel Rules
I heard an interview with a pundit a while back, saying vaccine mandates and testing mandates to fly domestically would be a real problem for the airlines because they’d lose too much business because of it.
Continue reading “Bonus post: Changes to Travel Rules”Travels Revisited: Dublin
I was on a fantastic tour, run by CIE. I met lovely people including Robin and Stella from Canada. There was a massive heat wave in parts of the world where air conditioning is rarely a consideration, and chilled cider never tasted so good.
Which is not to say I didn’t enjoy an Irish coffee from time to time.
Continue reading “Travels Revisited: Dublin”March 28: Turks and Caicos
Last port of call! Second-to-last cruise day!
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aka gringita 