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Off on our next cruise, this time it’s round trip from Southampton on the Cunard Line Queen Victoria stopping at: Kristiansand, Norway -...

We had arranged through Cunard for a driver to pick us up at Heathrow and drive us down to Southampton. We waited in the arrivals lounge...

Breakfast was included in the room rate at the hotel and it was the usual English breakfast buffet, including fried eggs that had been...

Kristiansand is a city in southern Norway. Its old town, Posebyen, features traditional wooden houses. In the center, neo-Gothic...

Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, sits on the coastal islands of Zealand and Amager. It’s linked to Malmo in southern Sweden by the Öresund...

I don’t normally write about sea days but this afternoon we attended a gin tasting in the mid-ships bar. This was a limited seating paid...

Tricky sail in through dozens of small islands (though we were fast asleep) to get to the city of Stockholm which itself is situated on...

Tallinn in the former Soviet bloc country of Estonia has become a very popular tourist destination and we noticed several cruise ships in...

This is the first of two full days in St. Petersburg and we’ve opted for ships shore excursions for both days. Self-guided visits ashore...

For our second day in St. Petersburg we are going on an all-day tour to visit two palaces located outside the city. Catherine’s Palace,...

Our 5th port in a row and we are feel a bit exhausted! We took the ship’s shuttle bus into the city and explored the main shopping...

Tonight was a formal night and we opted to dine at the onboard specialty restaurant; an area of the buffet set up as a restaurant with...

Our last stop on this cruise – the time has gone by really fast. The ship docked in the former east German town of Wernemunde in the past...