Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Sweden on Jun 21st, 2017
We started our day with a short walk to Gamla Stan. The weather was again beautiful, though a little cloudier and cooler (fine by me). First, we visited the Royal Palace, which we hadn’t seen before. Rick Steves throws some shade on it in his guidebook, suggesting that it’s kind of dull compared to other […]
Posted in Sweden on Jun 20th, 2017
Today, we docked in Nynäshamn — a port about an hour (driving) south of Stockholm, which was an annoying change announced by NCL a little more than a month ago. In any case, we departed the ship (two mornings early) around 9am after the majority of passengers had left for the day. To get to […]
This morning we awoke to cloudy but thankfully not rainy skies in Helsinki, Finland. When we visited Helsinki six years ago, it was pretty much a complete washout –tremendous rain hampered our ability to do and see much of anything. Today was markedly better. We took the shuttle bus from the port to downtown by […]
Today, we visited the Hermitage, which is without question known as one of the finest museums in the world. Since our tour only started around noon, we had a leisurely morning aboard Getaway. Emerson was especially pleased to play mini golf with the course all to ourselves: En route to the museum, we witnessed the […]
We’re back in Russia. Like the rest of northern Europe, we last visited St. Petersburg for a single day six years ago when Emerson was only a little more than a year old. Due to Russian visa requirements, it’s generally easiest to do a shore execursion arranged by the cruise line. So, we did a […]