Monday, 20 May 2013

Viking River Cruises May 20, 2013

Tonight I emailed my cousins in the Netherlands. Marja and George will meet us at Schiphol when we arrive on July 13. We will stay with them for three nights. For the fourth night, we will stay with my cousin Betty who lives in Amsterdam. On Wednesday July 17th, she will take us to the port where we will start our river cruise on the Viking Odin Ship. 

We will cruise with Odin for 15 days or 14 nights.  Included in this package are 13 excursions. We start in Amsterdam and spend quite a few days and nights cruising the rivers of Germany and Austria. 

What impressed me about the Viking cruises is that they only had 190 passengers on board. It gives you the opportunity to meet people and to perhaps establish a relationship. One couple who suggested this cruise to us was John Flack. John and his wife will also be on the same cruise. John and I have worked together in the Langley School district. I am looking forward to the summer and Tony and I are   planning for our departure in July.

Friday, 17 May 2013

May 17th Travel Plans

This is  Tony and I when we went to Palm Springs in 2012. We went to the "Desert zoo" and toured for the whole day. There were many desert animals to view as well as displays of desert  vegetation. We had a great time . The weather was super.


Today we have been planning our European trip that will start on July 12 , 2013. We will fly to Amsterdam, and then board a Viking river boat and take a river cruise for 15 days. We disembark in Budapest. There we will stay for 2 more nights. After we will take the train for 8 hours to Prague. We will stay for two more nights and hopefully visit the countryside as well. Then we fly with KLM back to Amsterdam. I am fortunate that I still have relatives who we will stay with in Amsterdam. Then we plan to fly home . This is my first post to this blog. It is a trial run!