Today was the Niagara Falls visit. We docked in Port Colbourne last night. Port Colbourne was built during the Welland Canal, the 4th time. The 4the iteration was built in the 1930s. The falls were a 45 minute ride from the Port. Nana was so excited to see the falls. She has wanted to visit…
1st day of our cruise. We left the Toronto port early this morning with a short ride across Lake Ontario. We then entered the Welland Canal. The Welland Canal takes you from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie. It was built by the british and is part of Canada. The Canal consists of 8 locks, takes…
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…
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