January 17, 2023 - Day at Sea
January 17, 2023 – A Day at sea- our favorite! I spent too much time napping in the afternoon while Bob Humbert spent an enormous amount...
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Silversea Grand Voyage. Part 2 of our Travel around the World. Lisbon, Portugal to Stockholm, Sweden.
January 17, 2023 – A Day at sea- our favorite! I spent too much time napping in the afternoon while Bob Humbert spent an enormous amount...
And so we begin our travels again. Actually, our trip begins on Thursday, January 12 when BlackLane cancels in an email the night before....
Yes, we are ready to go and after a lovely breakfast at our hotel, we are picked up by a beautiful black limousine and head to the...
I think they saved the best for last. We arrive in Stockholm which is the Venice of the North. You can see immediately that there are...
We dock in Helsinki, Finland at 8 AM. Helsinki is among a gathering of about 300 islands in the Gulf of Finland. A flawlessly designed...
Now this port was truly extraordinary for its oppressive communist history. We arrive at Tallinn Estonia around Noon. We joined an...
It's Anni's birthday. We dock at Visby, Sweden at 8 AM. Lo and Behold right next door is Cunard’s Queen Victoria. How ironic that we...
We decided to skip the official excursions and explore on our own. This island sits in the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Sweden and is a...
Gdansk is one of Poland's oldest and most beautiful cities, sitting on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Looking around today, it is difficult...
It's cloudy and rainy and our ship makes way for Gdansk, Poland at Noon. We love quiet days like today! Tomorrow is an early excursion....
We are docked in beautiful Copenhagen and it’s sunny!!! We take advantage of the beautiful weather have breakfast outside at La Terrazza...
Aalborg is Denmark's fourth largest city - Viking landscapes, modernist architecture, superb local food and lots and lots of beer! First,...
This morning we get off the ship and walk along this fabulous harbor. We go by the Nobel Peace prize building and along the waterfront,...
It's Bob's birthday, it begins with breakfast on a gorgeous morning, we get back to our stateroom with a surprise of balloons, cards,...
We dock at Stavanger, Norway @ 8:00 AM. This is the energy capital of Norway as the city’s growth was fueled by discovery of oil in the...
Pastel colored warehouses appear as we dock in Bergen, Norway at 8:00AM. We are deep in yet another overwhelming Fjord. Bergen's...
Flam is one of the country’s longest Fjord, 204-kilometer Sognefjord. Natural beauty is its claim to fame, and the scenery does not...
They describe Olden as quaint wooden farmhouses sitting below jagged mountain peaks in a land of superlative natural features. A village...
What a beautiful fjord - Geirangerfjord - a World Heritage site. Unfortunately, Alesundis does not come alive until later in the summer...
Day at Sea - we went to a Culinary Demonstration and Talk - "Smorrebrod: Nordic Open-Faced Sandwiches" - recipes, demo and tasting with...