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August 1, 2024 Final Thoughts, Viking Homelands trip and Iceland Iceland. 🇮🇸 The Land of Fire and Ice is a most appropriate name for this spectacular country! One amazing spectacle of nature after another made July 25, 2024 Scandinavia, Day 14 - Bergen, Norway We started our last day trying to change our panoramic tour of Bergen to the walking one. It was full, and they wouldn’t let us on. Boy, were we July 24, 2024 Scandinavia, Day 13 - Flåm Question— how many times can you look at scenery and ooh and ah and not get bored? All day and beyond, if you are in the incredible fiords of July 23, 2024 Scandinavia Day 12 - Stavanger, Norway The area around the town of Stavanger (pronounced sta-VAN-ger) is known for two things: it is the center of the Norwegian oil industry, one of the July 21, 2024 Scandinavia, Days 10 & 11–Oslo, Norway ( long) A little glitch today made a couple of plans more difficult, but in the grand scheme of things, did not affect us too much. Oslo is the only July 20, 2024 Scandinavia Day 9, - Ålborg Walking Tour and Pampering 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 July 19, 2024 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 July 18, 2024 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 July 18, 2024 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 July 17, 2024 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 July 16, 2024 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 July 15, 2024 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 July 14, 2024 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 July 13, 2024 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 July 12, 2024 Scandinavia and Iceland - 2024 Itinerary ### Iceland ### Day/Date ### ### Location ### Comments ### Pre-cruise: Day 1July 7-8 ### Reykjavík, Iceland Travel to Iceland, Explore July 11, 2024 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 July 10, 2024 Iceland Day 3 - Waterfalls and volcanoes and glaciers, oh my!—Tour of the South Coast (Long) We were picked up at 8 am for our tour from Your Day Tours, another company that came highly recommended. There are six stops on this 11 hour July 9, 2024 Iceland Day 2 - Golden Circle In Iceland, there are multiple tours with multiple companies to satisfy the desires of the exploding tourist population. We are taking two— the July 8, 2024 Iceland Day 1 - Reykjavik , Exploring the City Our flight from Tampa through Detroit was delayed, but we arrived in Reykjavik without too much trouble. A pre-arranged cab picked us up from the