Well, we are packed and ready to go. We are have a flight tonight from Philadelphia to London, then a second flight to Stockholm, Sweden. There we will embark on the Viking Sun for their 14 day Viking Homeland Cruise, doing many of the Baltic capitals and going to eight different countries with a three night extension to Iceland This will be a first for us. We will be away for 19 days. Not sure how our marriage will hold up, but I will certainly keep you posted.
The good news is we just found out that we got a free upgrade and will be in a Penthouse Deluxe Veranda Room. I read over the perks from what I read we will have a king size bed, alcohol replenished daily in our room refrigerator, and a free bottle of champagne when we board. ( Too bad we both hate champagne).
Our flight left Philadelphia at 8:45 pm. We flew to London arriving at 4 am. EST. Then onto Stockholm arriving at our time at 9am, their time 3 pm. Next we a 45 minute bus ride to our ship, the Viking Sun. On the way we passed farms. We saw bales of hay in the fields that were plastic wrapped. We also passed many business buildings. The architecture is very straight lines with most of the buildings in a rectangular shape. It reminded me of the simplistic style of IKEA.
Although we were in port tonight, we were both pretty tired from traveling. We had a very leisure dinner with two other couples, both from Michigan, in the restaurant and called it a day. Tomorrow we are scheduled for panoramic tour of the city and I am we will be able to take in the VASA Ship and the History Museum on our own before we take sail at 2:30 pm for Helsinki. But more about that tomorrow. Goodnight!
WOW, lots of plane sitting!! Sounds and looks like you have a spectacular suite!!! I just hope Frank will go on the tours…he might want to stay in the room!?!?
Yes, he loaded lots of books on his kindle. Might have to leave him behind as he grows weary of yet one more excursion!