January 4th, 2025 through May 9th, 2024. Well we started on the adventure of a lifetime yesterday. 128 day cruise around the world on Holland America Cruise line sailing on the Zuiderdam. I will try to blog our trip at our different stops so that our grandchildren (and anyone else that is interested) can follow…
We anchored just around the corner from Killarney last night and spent the nice in a peaceful cove. This morning we woke up to a lot of wind and rain. The captain decided to move the ship to a more sheltered area and this consequently changed the schedule all around. The plan for today was…
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…
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 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. …
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