One of my favorite things on the Viking Ocean boards has been following the various live blogs posted here ... so I'm going to try to pay it forward!
My wife and I will be celebrating our 25th anniversary by taking our first Viking Cruise later this month, which is also only our 2nd cruise ever (previously did a 3 night Disney cruise to the Caribbean) and will be our first time to Europe!
We fly out Friday the 25th (another first -- lie-flat seats!), arriving in Venice on the 26th. We will stay two nights at Hotel Antiche Figure directly on the Grand Canal before boarding the Sky on the 28th. Since we're arriving on a Saturday afternoon and don't want to spend our Monday morning scrambling to get a COVID test, we're taking the rapid PCR test here in the US on the morning of our flight out.
Below are the excursions we selected. We realize we could have booked with independent operators, but we decided to play it super safe and do all Viking excursions. All are optional, except for the included one in Venice.
Venice, Italy - At a Glance: St. Mark's Sure
Split, Croatia - Krka National Park & Dubrava Falconry Center Dubrovnik - Dalmatian Coast Wine & Food Tasting Corfu, Greece - Scenic Corfu and Theotoky Estate & Winery Naples - Sorrento & Pompeii Rome - Highlights of Rome & the Colosseum Florence/Tuscany - Cooking in a Tuscan Castle Monte Carlo - Nice, Èze & Monte Carlo Marseille, France - Le Castellet & Wine Tasting Barcelona - Gaudí Architecture & La Sagrada Família (morning)
An Evening of Flamenco (evening)
Almost hard to believe we'll be in Venice in less than a week!