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Forum: Europe
Oct 20th, 2021, 02:21 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

golfbuddy's October of 2021 thread about river...

golfbuddy's October of 2021 thread about river cruising made me think about the dining options on our 2018 cruise and I don't think I mentioned anything about the Aquavit Terrace. I thought I would...
Forum: Europe
Feb 25th, 2019, 08:19 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Thanks Huggy. Enjoy your upcoming trips. An...

Thanks Huggy. Enjoy your upcoming trips. An Alaska cruise is high on our list. Do you have a particular cruise line that you like?

I finished the book back in October and I liked it a lot. I...
Forum: Europe
Feb 24th, 2019, 04:34 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

After reading maitaitom's Italy trip report and...

After reading maitaitom's Italy trip report and looking at his pictures where he sets the bar so high, I know our pics pale by comparison. But I'm going to post a link to a few of them anyway. ...
Forum: Europe
Oct 22nd, 2018, 05:42 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

russ_in_LA - Thanks. Congrats on buying a house...

russ_in_LA - Thanks. Congrats on buying a house in France. I think you should go down the path of Frances Mayes and Peter Mayle and write a book about your experience. The title could be "So We...
Forum: Europe
Oct 15th, 2018, 06:35 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Huggy - My kindle app tells me I'm 43% in to the...

Huggy - My kindle app tells me I'm 43% in to the book and I am really enjoying it. I would be much farther in to it but this darn retired life is so busy I don't have much time for reading. I really...
Forum: Europe
Oct 11th, 2018, 12:06 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Huggy - thursdaysd mentioned the Alaska Ferry...

Huggy - thursdaysd mentioned the Alaska Ferry system above and like I said I wish I would have known about this marine highway system in my young single days. It sounds like a great adventure. And I...
Forum: Europe
Oct 10th, 2018, 04:19 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

bigtyke - Thanks for the info. We have friends...

bigtyke - Thanks for the info. We have friends who have done several repositioning cruises and absolutely love them. One good thing about them is you don't have to worry about water levels.
...
Forum: Europe
Oct 6th, 2018, 07:16 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

I knew we were extremely lucky to not have any...

I knew we were extremely lucky to not have any problems on our cruise but I had no idea how lucky we really were. Now that some time has passed since our cruise, I figured there should be some...
Forum: Europe
Sep 24th, 2018, 12:47 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

bvlenci - I should have added Riesling wine to...

bvlenci - I should have added Riesling wine to the list of things we liked better than we thought we would in Germany. Trier and the Mosel valley look like they would be great to visit for the...
Forum: Europe
Sep 22nd, 2018, 05:27 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

We are home from a week in Bermuda and thank...

We are home from a week in Bermuda and thank goodness this time we did not bring home a souvenir illness. This is completely unrelated but I'm watching an exciting Atlanta United soccer game - I've...
Forum: Europe
Sep 18th, 2018, 05:13 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Sorry I have not checked this recently. We are...

Sorry I have not checked this recently. We are just finishing a super relaxing week in lovely Bermuda. What a beautiful, clean, friendly and expensive country.

travelchat - thanks for the nice...
Forum: Europe
Sep 9th, 2018, 02:35 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

menachem - at Okura we only had breakfast twice...

menachem - at Okura we only had breakfast twice at La Camelia and lunch once on the terrace at Serre - all were very good. We were exhausted by the end of each of our two full days in Amsterdam so...
Forum: Europe
Sep 8th, 2018, 07:58 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Carolmom - thanks. Have fun in the UK and maybe...

Carolmom - thanks. Have fun in the UK and maybe one day you will do a river cruise. We liked the Okura and I never did learn to stay out of the bike lanes when we were there.

dugi_otok - Nice to...
Forum: Europe
Sep 7th, 2018, 12:11 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

I have always wanted to be able to say this to...

I have always wanted to be able to say this to someone and the opportunity is just too good to pass up. kerouac, I forgive you. LOL!

Personally I 100% agree with you and that is what I do. But...
Forum: Europe
Sep 7th, 2018, 08:32 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

thursdaysd and quokka - whatever they were, those...

thursdaysd and quokka - whatever they were, those bee-like flying critters were very annoying and concerning because of my wife's allergy to stings. They were also inside a lot of places that have...
Forum: Europe
Sep 6th, 2018, 05:52 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

trvlsolo2 - thanks. Our hotel in Amsterdam was...

trvlsolo2 - thanks. Our hotel in Amsterdam was the Hotel Okura and in Lucerne it was the Hotel Astoria. The cost for the Lucerne extension was $699 and Amsterdam was $549. The hotel rooms alone...
Forum: Europe
Sep 6th, 2018, 05:20 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Day 12 – 8/23 – Amsterdam and flight home ...

Day 12 – 8/23 – Amsterdam and flight home

Had another very good included breakfast at the hotel before heading to the Rijksmuseum. The online tickets I bought were good for a year and they were...
Forum: Europe
Sep 6th, 2018, 04:37 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Day 11 – 8/22 – Amsterdam We had tickets to...

Day 11 – 8/22 – Amsterdam

We had tickets to the Anne Frank House at 10:30 so we had a very good included breakfast at the hotel and caught a tram. By the way, the Viking staff had been warning us...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 06:54 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

thursdaysd and TPAYT - I really don't like...

thursdaysd and TPAYT - I really don't like leaving my luggage outside the door either.

Scootoir - the cruise and the two extensions added up to 12 days. We are not budget travelers nor are we...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 01:33 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Day 10 – 8/21 – Amsterdam Kind of like the...

Day 10 – 8/21 – Amsterdam

Kind of like the way I feel right now about writing this report (HA), we were all running low on energy by the time we got to Amsterdam. It was aggravating to have to...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 11:24 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Day 9 – 8/20 – Day cruise and Kinderdijk...

Day 9 – 8/20 – Day cruise and Kinderdijk windmills

We cruised all night (left Cologne at 10:15 PM) and on in to the day. It was very enjoyable to be able to see the landscape roll by. Vineyards,...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 07:02 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

kerouac - I mentioned that we had been on 9...

kerouac - I mentioned that we had been on 9 previous self planned trips to Europe. This cruise was by far the most expensive. We traded a lot of our treasure for a trip that was pretty much already...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 05:09 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Happy - What happened to you is exactly why I'm...

Happy - What happened to you is exactly why I'm not offering an opinion on whether to go on a cruise or not. I really have no way of knowing if our experiences were typical or not. My only advice is...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 04:34 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Scootoir - Very early in our planning stage,...

Scootoir - Very early in our planning stage, before we had chosen which cruise to take, a friend told us that Viking was one of the cruise lines that was big enough to have spare boats in case they...
Forum: Europe
Sep 5th, 2018, 04:22 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 56,189
Posted By john183

Jeez I can’t believe I forgot to include this...

Jeez I can’t believe I forgot to include this about Cologne. Because we visited Cologne on a Sunday, we were not able to get in to the cathedral on our walking tour in the morning. They were having...
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