Tag: River cruise
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A few final bits about our River cruise
All the stray dogs in Eastern Europe just about broke my heart. They weren’t starving, but they also likely weren’t receiving any kind of veterinary care or love from a human pack. Our ship often docked outside the port, so we had to get on a bus for whatever tour was happening. This was a…
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Videos from my phone
As I may have mentioned, the internet on the ship was really slow. I used my Airalo eSIM to transfer pictures, but didn’t want to use up data for videos. Now that we have good internet access, I can share some of the videos I took.
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Feed the phone!
Of course the food on the ship was wonderful! One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Wolf Lunch at Yantra Grand Hotel Typical Bulgarian dinner Dinner on the ship were some Serbian selections Lunch at Nadia’s home in Croatia Our farewell dinner included Hungarian selections
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Emerald Luna and Our Cabin
The Emerald Luna was built in 2021 in Holland. It is 443 feet long, 36 feet wide and currently has 164 passengers and 50 crew members. I asked the Hotel Manager whether we were on a ship or a boat and the answer is both. Apparently you can put a boat on a ship, but…
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Vidin Bulgaria, Saturday May 25
We met for breakfast at 8 and were ready to board the bus for our tour at 9:30. Our guide was Sashka. She said the typical monthly salary is about €800. The Bulgarian way to say cheers is Nastrovia. We passed a few interesting sites on the bus, but I never did get back to…
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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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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…
Enchantment of Eastern Europe 