Our early morning tour of the city of Ålborg was lovely. It was history oriented, of course, but our guide, a young Mom who was somewhat recently graduated gave us a nice background of what it is like to live here.
Ålborg is the 4th largest city in D...
Scandinavia Day 8– Copenhagen
Still recovering from our 15,000 step day in Berlin, we lined up to take our Copenhagen on Foot tour at 9:30. Copenhagen is Denmark’s capital and is also the gateway to the rest of Scandinavia. Today’s weather was a perfect 10, a fact which made us a...
Scandinavia Day 7 - Berlin, Part 2
(Continued)
A policy of modern Germany is to commemorate victims and resistance and to not glorify conquests. A stark example is a monument with a single sculpture Mother with Dead Son from 1937 in remembrance of the First World War. Lee led us on a m...
Scandinavia Day 7 - Berlin, Part 1
(Split into two posts due to length)
We were up at 5:30 for an early morning 2.5 hour train ride from our ship docked in Warnemünde, Germany to Berlin. Viking arranged for a private train to bring its travelers to Berlin for what turned out to be a ver...
Scandinavia, Day 6 – Bornholm
This was a relaxing day, as we expected it would be. We didn’t dock in the small Danish island of Bornholm until noon, so we used the morning to try to catch up on our blog and attend a lecture on Cabarets in Berlin from 1920-1940.
The second was enj...
Scandinavia Day 5–Gdańsk, Poland ( long)
There was a big fire at our intended port in Gdańsk, 20 minutes away from the city. As a result, our docking port was changed to Gdynia, an hour away. This obviously changed the timing of our day, so at 7:45, after a very quick breakfast, we boarded ...
Scandinavia Day 4 - At Sea
We only have one full "at sea" day, unless something unexpected happens, and today was it. We joined the hoards for a late breakfast and got very slow, spotty service as the staff was overwhelmed. At the main restaurant, "The Restaurant"😂😂, the waite...
Scandinavia Day 3 - Mariehamn
Our first stop after leaving Stockholm was in Mariehamn, capital of the Åland Islands. A stark contrast to the vibrant city of Stockholm, Mariehamn is a quaint, rural town situated on an island that is part of an archipelago of 6700 (!) islands betwee...
Scandinavia Day 2 - Stockholm
A fun and lovely day except for the fact that Jim has now shared his cold with Wendy. Yuck!
We got an early breakfast and went to walk out to meet our guide for the morning. The tour was entitled Old Town By Foot. This guide was great! He managed to ...
Iceland Day 4 and Scandinavia Day1 - Travel woes, Stockholm and Viking Venus
Our travel day did not start particularly well. We got to the airport at 5:15 am. Kevflivic airport is rather antiquated especially regarding security procedures . They made us take off our watches but not shoes. When Wendy went to pick up her w...
Jim and Wendy Damoulakis
A journal of our major travels
Scandinavia and Iceland
July 2024
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Jordan and Israel
May 2023
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London and Scotland
Sep 2022
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Machu Picchu and Galapagos
May 2019
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Portugal and Spain
September 2018
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Southwest US
September 2017
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China
June -July 2015