Norwaylady

Its DB https://us.dbjourney.com Both are Hugger. One is 30L and the other 25L.

This is the same as for Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque🙃 I have visited both by the Queen🙌 If you are booked on a tour and the guide dont find your cloths to be loose/ baggy enough, they often carry a bag of tents to borrow for ladies😂🫡

And if someone is in doubt, we are ready! Perfect socks for maritim trivia😁 Are you team Port or Starboard?

So it’s soon time to hit the show on the road live! We are flying to Rome on Saturday 28.10. Red eyed 06.00AM flight on SAS via Copenhagen. We will spend the night before our flight at Radisson Red OSL. So we can just walk straight through security and onboard our flight😇 In Rome we are staying at Antico Palazzo Rospigliosi Hotel. It’s located close to Termini. So it’s easy access to the train from the airport and the train to the port. Nothing fancy or expensive, but hopefully it will cover our needs for our stay. We have been to Rome several times before on weekend trips and by cruise. My cousin lived in Rome for several years, so I frequently visited him there. So this will just be time for relaxation, walking and just have a good time. To make sure Mr is feed on Italian dishes, I booked us a food tour on Sunday. He loves this type of activity. Bags are done and the cats will de delivered to the Queen tonight. Thats all you need for 4 weeks away. 2 suitcases 15kg and 17kg. And one carry-on backpack each.

You have a very good itinerary for both cruises🙌 Im a bit sad that you dont visit Bergen together by your friends. (For those following on IG you know I visit frequently) But you have some very good ports! You will enjoy it🥰 Haugesund, Stavanger, Flåm and Geiranger covers a decent taste of Norway🤩 For the next adventure, Best of Scandinavia, you have a very good lineup. Skagen is not a big place, but the light.... the light.... It's a reason why it's very famous for painters. Grenen is the tip of Denmark and the light.....Perfect for painters. If you need planning help. Visit Denmark is very good and offers great service. https://www.visitdenmark.com/denmark/plan-your-trip/grenen-skagen-gdk640520 Stockholm, Visby and Copenhagen are all wonderful. Your sailing times for Stockholm is good for viewing the sail in/out. (less good for time to visit Stockholm, but the archipelago is gorges) Visby is a nice stop. This is the island where Pippi by Astrid Lindgren was filmed. Copenhagen has plenty of time, so you can do a lot if you want. Perfect! Oslo, WELCOME You can enjoy lunch during sail in to Oslo. Drøbak is the most narrow point of the sail inn. You will pass Oscars Borg and you can almost touch it. Very happy for your overnight stay. I will probably be home in Oslo🙃 The Opera season is on in September. So depending on the schedule, you can attend a ballet or opera performance in the evening. You have plenty of options in Oslo. Normally the weather is good when you visit. School has just started again and then the sun is normally shining during working days😂 If you need help for Oslo or something. Just search up the thread in Scandinavian ports of call. I post the cruise schedule for Oslo when it's ready for 2024 arrivals. It will say where you are docking in the city and if you have other ships in port by you.

⚠️⚠️BIG Warning⚠️⚠️ The cruise is in November🙈 You all know what that means…. It’s Movember! This is Mr’s favourite time of the year🕺🏻🕺🏻 Let’s just say, I’m extremely happy when it’s 1.December😝 What will I be married to this year🫣🤔🤭 So that’s something to keep in mind if you see some pictures of us😅 (Or if you are onboard and see us around🙈) Just to give you a taste of it…… Mr had really planned it perfectly for his new driving license card😂😂😂 It’s issued 5.days before 1. December🤭

I’m very happy for Muscat vs just an extra sea day⚓️ We have visited Oman before. Last time on a cruise, we went to Nizwa. The fortress was nice. Unfortunately are we docked on a Friday. That’s mosque day. So it’s closed for visitors. And the opera house is closed. They are closed due to the situation in Gaza. I emailed a tour company asap when the changes was officially. They do only some of the tours they offer on Fridays. So we will see what we plan for…. Muscat city is beautiful. I remember first visit, it was just like I arrived in an Arabic fairytale🤩

🥳🥳🥳 Thats a great sailing! Fingers crossed for lovely weather and smooth seas⚓️ Very happy for you❤️ (I have a aunt and uncle duty to preform… otherwise I would gladly joined you;)

Great🤩 fingers crossed for decent weather and smooth seas🥰⚓️

Thats a great combo⚓️ 🥰 You get lots of great ports and different things to see and do.

Bon Voyage⚓️ Really happy that you do a live! Our Japan sailing on Milli before she was refurbished is still one of our favourite cruises🤩

So just to take it up a notch…. In the beginning of September we had beautiful Aurora Borealis in Oslo! ✨🤩🙌🏻🤩✨ It’s not normally for us, but the sky was on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I was happy working late from my office looking outside on the sky✨🤩 My friend René loves Lofoten and Longyearbyen🇳🇴 So if you want some smashing pictures, feel free to follow him🙌🏻 https://instagram.com/reneringnes?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== And further north it was perfect✨🤩✨ This is a picture from Mr Norwayladys friend at Langvatnet in Mo i Rana❤️✨❤️ Still unsure if you should go to Norway 🇳🇴?

Okey, let’s just get in by my sales gig for Norwegian Fjords cruises⚓️🤭🇳🇴 (You all know I’m not sponsored or paid by Hurtigruten, X or royal for this😂😂😂) BUT it’s my pleasure to share why you should book a Norwegian Fjords cruise🇳🇴❤️❤️🤍💙💙🤍❤️❤️ And now is a perfect time! 1.The NOK is almost for free💰💰💰 2. X has an excellent sailing on Apex 08. July 2024 12n⚓️🇳🇴🤩🙌🏻 3. Rccl has a great sailing on Jewel 30.May 2024 12n⚓️🤩🇳🇴🙌🏻 4. Rccl has a great sailing on Jewel 5.July 2024 13n⚓️🙌🏻🇳🇴🤩 What is very important on these itineraries is that they travel above the artic circle ⭕️ You will be on 71’n at North Cape🎖️🇳🇴 If you want to sail deluxe….. this saling on Silversea is also a decent cruise….. Silversea Shadow 22.july 2025 12n Hamburg to Tromsø. (You can sail the other way also, same itinerary) If you have a flexible calendar and are a bit more open minded, don’t need a show in a theatre daily and can deal with the fact that the entertainment and fun is the view and scenery🤩🦌🦅🦉🐳 Then you should book Hurtigruten or Havilla Bergen-Bergen. Spend some days in Bergen or Oslo prior to the sailing, you have plenty of things to see and do🤩 We have sailed Hurtigruten on a full sailing and port to port frequently (we use them for visiting Mr Norwayladys family❤️🇳🇴) The scenery up north is beautiful and totally different from Bergen, Geirangerfjord and Flåm. So you will be rewarded for those extra days on a cruise🤩⚓️🤩 And you will enjoy the midnight sun 24/7😎 in the summer season and during autumn 🍂 winter ❄️ you have excellent chance of seeing Aurora Borealis ✨ What's not to like in Helgeland? On next cruise….🤭🤔🤭 Maybe I can get a job as a speaker🤓🙃 to give future cruises a boost😂🇳🇴 Beautiful 🇳🇴 Norway 🇳🇴 I have enough footage in photos and lots of great tour options I have visited and tried out🙌🏻 😂😂😂🤭❤️🇳🇴 (It’s important to actually have tested the “product” before you can recommend it🤓👍🏻🫡)

Because we don’t have the same last name. I kept my own last name and Mr kept his. And I have looked a lot younger than Mr🙈 We can laugh about it and we joke about it between us😂 But…. We have had problems several places on this. This has applied for hotels, customs/boarder controls. We have several not funny stories about this… I will tell you one: We had one situation in Asia, we were almost not able to check in on a very luxurious hotel in a double room…. It was not accepted to stay in the same room as your secretary😳 Since we were not Mr & Mrs🙈 We needed to have a chat by a manager and it was really not fun. It’s not fun to be addressed as my husband’s escort…. After this incident and 2 others, we decided it’s better to have an attested official printed copy of our marriage certificate in hand.

Maybe it’s time to start the packing😅 The folder of paperwork is finished and all good to go. On those longer travel tours I have a a4 map holding 40 fixed/permanent pockets. So all paperwork is listed chronologically in order of the tour from page 1. From the back it’s long lasting paperwork for several trips. So page 1-xx is typically air ticket, hotels, tours, cruise ticket, luggage tags cruise etc. So as we go, the paperwork goes away (unless something happens) From the back it’s “permanent” paperwork. Its marriage certificate, vaccine documents, copy of travel insurance license, valid visas ESTA, ETA Can, Indian visa, Sri Lanka visa, 3x copies of each passports. The Cats 🐈🐈 are staying at The Queen’s house during our holiday🥰 Not to happy about the suitcases😾

New itinerary was waiting in my mailbox Have we visited Muscat before? Yes😂 By our first cruise, MSC Lirica in 2011. We went on a shore excursion to Nizwa Fortress. Muscat is a very classy Arabic style city. So this is a very good and decent trade off to an extra sea day😇

recommend to download Windy app of you have an iPhone or iPad. Very helpful for what you are asking for😇 https://www.windy.com/?59.955,10.859,5 You can also look 👀 online

So today, dinner needed to be in a rapid edition. So no time for longer cooking and big preparations. So I ended up making classic Bruschetta and mozzarella for dinner. I always have homemade bread, tomatoes and fresh herbals in my kitchen. Nothing fancy, but it’s tasteful and quick. During dinner I was discussing our cruise by Mr. We know MSC has cancelled the Red Sea season and that MSC Viruosa has changed the itinerary. They have taken away Aqaba, Jordan and Safaga, Egypt. As a substitute, they have added an overnight in Muscat, Oman. So we were discussing how the odds of keeping Aqaba are….. Mr is 20/80 visit/cancel, Im more negative… 5/95. Out of the blue, Mr says: Wow, think if we could book an inside cabin…. I was like? What? What do you mean? Mr :How fun wouldn’t it be if they offered inside cabins whit a view to the engine of the ship? I replied, do you mean like a screen, like the virtual cabins at Rcl? Mr: No, like a glass wall into the engine. So you can see it moves and working during your cruise…. That would be fun for geeks like me. Well Hello there! I know I hit a home run when we did Bergen Heritage Tour earlier this summer…. You can walk into the engine (its a steam boat, working museum) Mr is like a kid in a candy shop🤩 IMG_9006.mov IMG_9018.mov Speaking of the Devil…. My fellow travellers from abroad has tonight Norwegian time received emails and phone calls from X. I have not yet received email or anything…. But it states that Aqaba is cancelled. But we get a stop in Oman, Muscat as a substitute. Its not Petra for those visiting, but its better then an extra sea day. Muscat is a beautiful place. One thing to do before I go to bed tonight….. Email JHT to cancel our tour……. I spoke to them yesterday about this.....

So, after around 24h we received our stateroom notification⚓️ We are booked to a magic carpet Sky suite on deck 11🤩👍🏻🥂 It will be fun to try out the suite lifestyle🥳 I know it has been drastically changes in Sky Suite services….( we haven’t tried it before, so nothing to compare it to🤭) But we will try and see if we enjoy it. We are easy going people….. (unless you find my habits to be demanding…) So as longest they will empty my minibar (since it’s not for free), so I can stock up on water and club soda, Im a happy camper😂🤩💃🏻 I need my daily steps, so I can collect my own coffee in the morning at Al Bacio and empty the bar in the retreat and drag it back to my fridge😉😂🤭 Account El Cheapo Norwaylady will not continue booking suites…. My taste for good price and value for money will continue to rule the choice of cabin. Unless we get the same deal again🤩

I can promise you one thing! El Cheapo Norwaylady accounting will still apply in the future😅 Or they have to show off at max to make me never want to go back to my balcony😇 No pressure🤣 I pay attention to what Charla is typing on the new suite life🤔

Thank you🥰 NZ is 🤩🤩🤩 it’s everything I like. It’s like a Kinder egg 🥚 Outdoors activities, warm baths, mountains and fjords. But the best are the people! It’s a perfect❤️ So of all places to be stranded, this was definitely the best place! We did spend the most time on the South Island and loved it🥰 The only places we need to seek more into and visit it South Island : Stewert Island (I gladly take a new trip in Fjordland national park. Kayak and overnights on the water also) Fox/Franz Josef glaciers (we did not go back due to winter ❄️) So we missed out the stretch from Haast to Graymouth. On the positive side, we went skiing in the mountains in July in Queenstown😁 not to bad😎 and we could do Queen Charlotte track almost all alone😊 on the north island we “missed” out on the corner New Plymouth-Whanganui and the corner Manutuke-Opotiki. Other then that, we were all over the place😅🚙 We even managed to attend a 100years flood in northern north island💦💦💦 Holy smoke it rained and washed away the roads! We were waken by the fire alarm, the lightning ⚡️ hit the building and the fire alarm went down and screamed. So when we are old and need something to look back to, we have something special to think about…..

When I sailed on Infinity in May/June I spoke to some of the offisers. Some of them were going to the dry dock that Edge is having before departure from Europe. She’s in for 14 days. It’s the 5 years inspection and some smaller things that being fixed. 🧽🪣🧽🛟⚓️ So hopefully she’s looking smashing and shiny for us on boarding day! Remember, she has a full garden onboard outside on deck🌳🌿🌸🪻🌳. Just not a lawn….. For someone that has been to Australia and NZ, you know this is a serious thing….⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ So I will not be surprised if I see a full garden of fake plants and trees….. Time will tell if it’s fake or real deal onboard for us!

Oh my, is it just me or is it getting hot🔥 I have some great news to tell you🥳🥳 On our roll call and on the blue page it has been an angry debate about a price drop on the cruise. Really angry and upset people. I have monitored the cruise to have a price check now and then. For us, the price has not been lower than what I booked the cruise for on Dubai/Singapore. On the segment from Rome to Dubai I did get a lower price when I booked the 2 part of our adventure. So we saved a decent amount of 7000NOK. We were very happy and satisfied on this change. The price for Dubai to Singapore has been stabil and really nothing to cheer for….. But 14 days before final payment for Nordic guests I did a price check. What do I spy whit my little eye? We can get a GTY suite, for the same price as our Concierge Cabin!!!!!! The Concierge and Aqua cabins was more expensive than GTY Suite. Well, what to do? Make that call to X and say: I want to upgrade my stateroom please😇 The cruise consultant said, YES, no problem! Halleluja🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 So we pay the same price but are moved to a GTY Suite and receive Premium Drinks, WIFI and some more OBC. El Cheapo Norwaylady was dancing thru dinner cooking that evening……….💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 SO HAPPY! And the best of it, we will have a real balcony on this part of the sailing. So if we dont enjoy the infinity veranda, we will get a proper balcony on the last part of our cruise. We have not received our stateroom yet, but we will be happy! It’s the first time we try out a suite🥂🥰 We always sail in balcony. I haven’t told Nr Norwaylady about it yet…. I think I will keep it as my secret🥰🤭🤫

@BridgeMates and @Kelownadon i can give a reason for why we are planning like this.... First, originally our port stop in Aqaba was to short... YES you reading correct! So it wasn't time to do Petra. But some very good soles on our Roll Call and on the blue page.... called and emailed X one million times to tell them to prolong our stay by 1/h so it was possible to do Petra. But they will have the express version of Petra, belive me😅 Both me and Mr was very clear from the beginning, that we would not do Petra on this cruise. We want to go back as a land holiday and have decent time to discover Petra. Our original booking on AZ had an overnight. So then things were very good for discovering Petra. We are still young and we are very safe in saying we will be back on a land tour! My appetite for travel and historical sites are still hungry🙌

You are in for a treat❤️ We did a Milli Japan cruise just before she went into the big dry dock for renovation in April 2018👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 She was very worn and ready for service then. But the cruise and crew was really 10/10👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 It’s one of our favourites! We are very ready for a new cruise in Japan/Asia. It just needs to be the correct ports of call for us😉🤓