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FYI….. if you want to do the cable car on your own, there is a shuttle bus on the square behind the tourist shop. $14 pp, RT.

Clay, are you allowed to bring the pelt into the USA? Did you need special papers?

They took us to Harpa, but didn’t check us in there. We took the earliest bus to the ship from Harpa and breezed thru embarkation. Timing is everything!

Boarded Saturn this morning. So excited to see Damien Solesse is our CD! He’s one of our absolute favorites. Also, we’ve sailed with Harry and Steph from the troupe as well as Laurence the guitarist. All of them are the BEST! Here’s the board….

We kissed a troll statue! It was SO much fun! The trick is to jump in and go under in one swoop. Once you’re in, all you can think about is getting out!

Same thing happened to me! As I was sitting there, they added 30 more bags of ice!

Laurence, Harry and Steph were all on our Vancouver to Honolulu cruise last fall. All of them are so talented!

No, we just went June, 2022.

We did the circumnavigation cruise right after the pandemic and then we rented a car and spent 2 weeks on the Ring Road on our own. Those two weeks were MAGICAL! We highly recommend it if you can do it!

We had the Blue Nose ceremony on our Midnight Sun and Northern Lights cruises. I actually did it and it was a blast! On the Midnight Sun, CD Aaron and the captain jumped in, too! On Northern Lights, CD Elmer did not. No surprise there….

Ok, we are almost always on our favorite deck 3 and I have never noticed an incline! I will have to pay more attention next month! 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, I do not….sorry

We did Delphi excursion because we were staying in Athens for a few days and saw Athens on our own. To this day, one of our favorite excursions in 9 cruises!

We did this a couple of years ago, so it may be different now. We made an early stop to get good pix of the Eiffel Tower and wish we had left there, but you Need to find out how to get to the bus to return! The drive through the city was frustrating because of the traffic! We drove around in circles because of the streets( we passed the opera house 3 times!). We sat at a light for literally 15 minutes, to “see” Notre Dame, then we turned the corner and saw it for 3 seconds on the move. Again, perhaps they’ve changed it now. It would be better for them to drive in and just drop off and let people spend the time seeing what they want to see.

And, don’t cough into your hand then handle the utensils at the buffet! 🤮🤮🤮

Just because we wear wear masks and use our expensive cruises to have some couple time in this crazy, busy world, doesn’t make us “minority alarmists” nor mean we don’t enjoy our ports. We respectfully aren’t bothered if you don’t wear a mask, why should you care if we do? We have a fabulous time on every cruise we go on and come home rejuvenated and very satisfied that we were not one of the many quarantined in our cabin…now THAT would affect our good time! 🤣🤣

We were diligent about wearing our masks from day 1. We do not cruise to meet other people, we go to enjoy each other’s company, so we really don’t mingle a lot with others. On buses and tenders, we sit in the back, which ends up being less crowded than the front. We ate at the cafe, but not with others. Once, at the restaurant we refused the table because it was wedged in between two other tables..they had no problem showing us another table that wasn’t elbow to elbow with other tables. Note that on day 1, we had about 10% wearing masks. By the end of the cruise, it was up to about 50-60%….word got around….

We were also on your cruise and agree that Covid was rapidly multiplying among guests and crew. Cruise director did acknowledge once that several of the entertainers were “in isolation”. Did you notice that officers and entertainers no longer ate at the cafe after a couple of days? And they canceled the Captains Farewell also. We did personally see several people taken off the ship at a couple of ports. There were, presumably, a number of quarantined on our floor as the Do Not Disturb signs never came off the doors and the nurse in her bright red scrubs was coming and going out of the rooms with those dreaded spit tubes….oh, and that heavy, phlegmy cough going around was scary, too!

Yes, the excursions for the 6/11 cruise were posted last night