geekette

We will depart Amsterdam on Wednesday, and the forecast (on my phone) shows rain, rain, rain for every port. Are they calling for a lot of rain? Just showers? It would be weird to have a ship swap in the rain!

I just got an email from Viking that our ship has been changed (as expected) from Sigrun to Einar. They also mentioned there may be changes to the itinerary due to low water. I think we're scheduled to go through the Rhine gorge on Saturday, the 10th. How low will it go....

So the red is the gorge, and the blue is the length of the Rhine that they didn't sail (and we might not)? Yikes.

Cruisemapper.com. On the left, unselect all, then select Viking. If you zoom in, it covers the map with ports, so I had to zoom out to get it clean enough to understand. (I don't know how accurate the tracks are, TBH)

That does look like an awful lot of sailing missing. Pardon my lack of geographical knowledge, but where along the Rhine is this gorge? And what's been missed is along where I've drawn the red line? Those blue arrows are all the Viking ships along the Rhine, so at least they're sailing for now!

We're crossing all our fingers and toes, hoping that our Amsterdam to Basel cruise will go as planned in two weeks. I noticed that the Sigrun, the ship we're scheduled to sail out of Amsterdam, is currently in Basel instead of Amsterdam. So if (big if) the ships continue to do the full sailing, I assume we'll be on her sister ship (probably the Einar, although there are 3 in Amsterdam right now). As much as my 87 year old Mom seems to want the novelty of a ship swap (seriously?), I'd rather sail through the Rhine gorge, myself...