Nana and I started our two week cruise through the 5 Great Lakes. This has been on our bucket list for a while and since we had a credit with Viking River Cruises and it looked like a great tour we decided to go on it. We flew into Toronto and then will traverse through…
Our last full day on the ship., It has been a great cruise. We love Holland America. The cruise has been great, the ship reliable, and the friends fantastic. More than 500 vessels go through it every single day to get from the North Sea to the Atlantic and from the United Kingdom to continental…
Another sea day rounding the corner of France getting ready to head up the English Channel. Nana went swimming again in the pool with Wolfgang. The ship was rolling a lot and there were other people in the pool so Nana and Wolfgang did not get too much swimming in. Nana and I took our…
Today we arrived at Northern Spain. Our excursion today took us to Santiago de Compostela. This translates to “James field of stars”. This is where the tomb of St. James, the apostle is buried. The cathedral here was built on the tomb of St. James. We arrived here from Gibraltor and previously the Canary Islands,…
Another relaxing sea day. Nana started her day with a competitive swim with Wolfgang. Nana did bridge both in the morning and afternoon. Papa was the fill in but wasn’t needed so he was able to get a lot of programming done. I heard back from someone at the JMRI (Model Train Program) group who…
Today we were in Gibraltar, this is our second visit to Gibraltar. It has changed so much since our first visit. The city has grown a lot and it seems the war caves have we visited on our first trip have changed a lot to. It looks like they’re adding a lot more displays, but…
Today was a sea day. Very nice and relaxing. We attended the Mariners Award Reception today. Last time we received our Silver Medallion for 300 sea days, this time we watched other people receive their award. It was very interesting. We were told there were 900 4 star and 5 star mariners on the ship…
We were at our 2nd and third Canarias Island stops today and yesterday. Since we didn’t do much on Saturday I am combining two blogs Suzanna and Wolfgang went swimming on Saturday in the main pool. Part of their challenge was to be in the pool but not have anybody else in there. Wolfgang and…
We arrived to the Canaries Islands today. We have three stops here over the next three days. The Canaries Islands are a group of many islands, the largest being Santa Cruz (Tenerife), which is where we are docked today. The weather was fantastic today with a high of 69 degrees and was very sunny. …
Today we arrived into Funchal (Madeira), Portugal. A lovely island off of the coast of Africa. There we met up with a dear friend, Jmichaele Keller. I have known Jmichaele for over 50 years, we were in scouting trips together, went to Notre Dame together, and have visited him at many places after that. Jmichaele…
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