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Emerald Luna May 23
We had a great night’s sleep, put our suitcases outside our door at 7 and went for breakfast at 8. We were to be in the hotel lobby for 9am, but the buses didn’t show up for awhile. Simona was our tour guide on the bus. She told us a Romanian saying: “You have to…
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Bucharest, Wednesday May 22
We were so lucky with our beautiful weather yesterday, but this morning was a rainy one. Around 10:30, the rain cleared up, so Luanne, Sharon, Dean and I walked the short distance to the pretty Church of the “Stavropoleos” Monastery. Daniel had agreed to pick us up at noon to take us to the Radisson…
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An outing to the Carpathia Mountains on May 21
Today was an awesome day, but first I just have to share this picture because it is EXACTLY true when using a new, unfamiliar shower! I turned the shower on without checking where it was pointing, and a huge blast of water came out onto me and the floor. It also took a long time…
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And we’re off on Sunday May 19!
We have had lots of cloudy rainy days with some strong thunderstorms, but Sunday morning dawned sunny and beautiful. I’ll take that as a good sign that our travel will progress without any hiccups. Tyler picked us up at 11 and we got to the airport at 11:40. Used our nexus cards to proceed quickly…
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31 Days to departure!
I have spent a lot of happy hours watching YouTube videos and reading my two guidebooks about Switzerland! The need for a visa to visit Europe is still pending and now expected to come into effect in 2025, so we don’t need to worry about that. When we got home from Arizona, I expected a…
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Black Friday!
Thanks to Dan’s bargain hunting ability, I called Emerald and will be getting a refund! We had to cancel our existing booking and lose our $1,000 deposit, which would have freaked me out, but for Dan’s intel! We rebooked using the Black Friday sale, under which the second guest sails for free. They wouldn’t let…
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More plans
I booked our airfare with Air Canada on August 14 and we are on the same flights as Sharon and Dean. If the flights go as planned, which is never a certainty these days, we will have 5 hours to kill in Munich. Dean and I are hoping it can work out that we dump…
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Next steps
Hooray! We received confirmation that Emerald has transferred the full amount of our deposit to this booking. I called to pay the balance and now have to research trip cancellation insurance. The big question is “where else to go and what else to do”? Something I found was a need to apply for travel authorization…
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Plans for 2024
We enjoyed sharing our Tuscan vacation so much that we were keen to try another trip with that group. Four of the six of those folk were available in Spring of 2024, so we got to planning. Unfortunately, we had a deposit on file with Emerald from our cancelled Douro River cruise that had to…
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Enchantment of Eastern Europe 