Canal archive Posted August 29, 2023 #2651 Share Posted August 29, 2023 The sticks do now seem to be more in evidence with our Asian friends and those taking movies as phone cameras are improving in leaps and bounds as cameras did over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisi Posted August 29, 2023 #2652 Share Posted August 29, 2023 I like to linger, have DH keep an eye on the guide and I can shoot all I want. I also have a great zoom lens on my camera, so can be back quite a bit and still get that "close up" shot. Last cruise I used everyone's tip about the "gentle walkers", and about 1/2 way through the cruise our group had doubled in size, as everyone was doing it. We had partners stationed to watch for the guides, and took photos to our hearts content. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Kristelle Posted August 31, 2023 #2653 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Got an email from TA today saying our ship will not be ScenicJade now but Scenic Jewel. Cruise starts 6th Sept. Am currently in lounge at Singapore airport on route to London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyGem Posted August 31, 2023 #2654 Share Posted August 31, 2023 44 minutes ago, Kristelle said: Got an email from TA today saying our ship will not be ScenicJade now but Scenic Jewel. Cruise starts 6th Sept. Am currently in lounge at Singapore airport on route to London. Safe travels and enjoy the cruise! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted August 31, 2023 #2655 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Same from me have a fantastic time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted August 31, 2023 #2656 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Have a great time Kristelle. notamermaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ural guy Posted August 31, 2023 #2657 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Retirement looks to be good, just booked a Viking Ocean cruise boarding 20 Jan 2025; Italy, the Adriatic and Greece, 14 nights. Due to time of year the price/day was low (for Viking Ocean, not really low). Also looking to book a 14 nights Riveira September 2024 cruise, Budapest to the Black Sea, it's a round trip from Budapest. It is scheduled to stop at a few places our 2016 Vantage Lower Danube didn't, and it will be interesting to see how Vukovar is doing in their rebuilding effort. Spouse still will be working at this point, so had to clear with her work. With the 9 night Viking river cruise down the Rhine over Christmas coming up this December, that will be a full dance card as far as cruising goes...now just have to hope our dog sitter plan stays solid. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Kristelle Posted September 1, 2023 #2658 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Hi Ural guy. We are not retired but can relate to the dog sitter thing. Kids are all grown up and left home but still need to organise a dog sitter LOL I will start a live thread when our cruise starts, in London for family catchup firsts and then 2 nights in Paris before river cruise starts 6th Sept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted September 2, 2023 #2659 Share Posted September 2, 2023 For anyone on a river cruise or land trip. European Heritage Days are again shining a spotlight on our monuments, treasured places. Main open days are in September. This is the page for Germany (address for the German page in link if you wish to have a look): https://www.europeanheritagedays.com/country/Germany notamermaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare franski Posted September 4, 2023 #2660 Share Posted September 4, 2023 On 8/31/2023 at 2:00 PM, ural guy said: ...and it will be interesting to see how Vukovar is doing in their rebuilding effort. We have done the lower Danube twice - the last time was September 2022. We were pleased to see how much Bucharest had "recovered" since our last visit. I was able to chat with various people during our stay there. Almost everyone expressed their appreciation about the fact that we came back to visit. The parliament was closed when we were there, but we had seen it on our first visit. It is took bad that our travel companions missed that, however.... Fran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT Trips Posted September 8, 2023 #2661 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Does an hour or two in the Yarra River, Sydney Harbor Ferries and dinner cruise, and then another couple hours in a jet boat on the Dart River qualify as river cruising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Kristelle Posted September 8, 2023 #2662 Share Posted September 8, 2023 In that case my trip isn't my first river cruise either - have done 3 nights on River Murray and a dinner cruise in Sydney Harbour and one on Swan river, Perth ( all in Australia, of course ) and an overnighter on Halong Bay, Vietnam Gosh, I'm an experienced veteran really. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted September 8, 2023 #2663 Share Posted September 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Kristelle said: 3 nights on River Murray If I look at it from a work perspective, i.e. my work in tourism, I think a proper river cruise in German terms needs to have an overnighter in. You need to sleep on the ship and move. So what you did counts. A dinner cruise is not a river cruise as far as I know. But you read the term "river cruise" all the time in Europe when the website only means four hours up the river and back. In German we can distinguish between what you do on a river cruise ship and on an excursion boat. We actually have a specific description and specification of what a tourist is. I was taught that, but -err- I do not remember the full explanation. Still trying to decide where I should go on for the open monuments day on Sunday. Either a Medieval house, or a palace or a railway museum. Will report back on what I chose in the end. notamermaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Kristelle Posted September 9, 2023 #2664 Share Posted September 9, 2023 I was only joking notamermaid as I'm sure CPT Trips was asking facetious question too. Other than the 3 nights on River Murray I don't call any of the others river cruises - dinner cruises, one nighters, ferry trips etc are not really river cruises to me either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted September 9, 2023 Author #2665 Share Posted September 9, 2023 52 minutes ago, Kristelle said: I was only joking notamermaid as I'm sure CPT Trips was asking facetious question too. Other than the 3 nights on River Murray I don't call any of the others river cruises - dinner cruises, one nighters, ferry trips etc are not really river cruises to me either Where would you classify sailing across the Atlantic in a hamster wheel? 🤣 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66733230 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted September 9, 2023 #2666 Share Posted September 9, 2023 9 hours ago, Kristelle said: I was only joking notamermaid as I'm sure CPT Trips was asking facetious question too. I got my text book out too fast. I was seriously wondering. A hamster wheel?? Now that is not in my textbook. 😁 Classification, hmmm: Bubble wrap cruise? Adventure cruise? Just plain bonkers cruise? I better leave the water cooler, either I have got too hot at work or I have got too much time on my hands. notamermaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted September 10, 2023 #2667 Share Posted September 10, 2023 My daughters hamsters all loved their wheels and one used to deliberately run his to the top of the stairs so that it fell and sprung open at the bottom, crafty little escape artist. In Scotland at the moment cashing in the sunshine and warmth, out on the balcony with a coffee at the moment have a super Sunday all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkster77 Posted September 10, 2023 #2668 Share Posted September 10, 2023 (edited) Are talking about hamster wheels (in-cage) or hamster balls, which allow them to roam the house? Edited September 10, 2023 by sharkster77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT Trips Posted September 10, 2023 #2669 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 9/9/2023 at 1:39 AM, Kristelle said: I was only joking notamermaid as I'm sure CPT Trips was asking facetious question too. Facetious? Really? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT Trips Posted September 10, 2023 #2670 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 9/9/2023 at 2:34 AM, Host Jazzbeau said: Where would you classify sailing across the Atlantic in a hamster wheel? 🤣 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66733230 Give me a moment to consult DSM-5-TR . . . For those unfamiliar, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24291-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-dsm-5#:~:text=In 2022%2C the APA published,accurate version of this resource. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted September 10, 2023 #2671 Share Posted September 10, 2023 I really need some water from the cooler, so hot in Germany today! Have returned from my day trip visiting a monument on the occasion of "Tag des offenen Denkmals". I went to a "Militärischer Sperrbezirk". Yes, that's right, army base. And what a splendid one. The magnificent mansion that is called "Schloß Oranienstein" in Diez on the river Lahn. More on that when I have more time. Right, I am off again. Dinner. See ya. notamermaid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted September 10, 2023 #2672 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Had to be the ball the wheel was far to easy to escape from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capriccio Posted September 10, 2023 #2673 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 9/9/2023 at 2:34 AM, Host Jazzbeau said: Where would you classify sailing across the Atlantic in a hamster wheel? 🤣 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66733230 On this guy's first attempt from Florida, he prepared for it over a week or so on the beach directly in front of our condo. Some of our neighbors befriended him. He was considered crazy then and I couldn't believe it when they sent me a newspaper about his most recent attempt. I think they were speechless since there was no note attached 😅. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted September 10, 2023 Author #2674 Share Posted September 10, 2023 17 minutes ago, capriccio said: On this guy's first attempt from Florida, he prepared for it over a week or so on the beach directly in front of our condo. Some of our neighbors befriended him. He was considered crazy then and I couldn't believe it when they sent me a newspaper about his most recent attempt. I think they were speechless since there was no note attached 😅. I believe this is a case where they should have let him complete his attempt to win this year's Darwin Awards... https://darwinawards.com/darwin/ 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare franski Posted September 12, 2023 #2675 Share Posted September 12, 2023 On 9/10/2023 at 3:58 AM, Canal archive said: In Scotland at the moment cashing in the sunshine and warmth, out on the balcony with a coffee at the moment have a super Sunday all. Flying out to Edinburgh in less than 48 hours... but, it looks as if you have been hoarding all that beautiful sunshine. The long range forecast on my weather app show primarily rain for the next 10 days 😢 Fran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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