I've become addicted to your update, so you are going to have to do it all again lol
what's the room service menu like? loved how you made the most of bad weather and ordered a bottle of champagne!
I can't believe even the smaller, more 'upmarket' cruise ships also try to sell you are work..
I hope you got to go ashore!
Looks like most nights are 'casual' on this itinerary?
Did you do the same itinerary as Ryan and his family? Ours is 16 nights, but I believe it starts out further north - it's Reykjavik to Reykjavik. Did you spend much time in Iceland? it's always good to get another Australian's perspective. Should we bring our own cold weather jackets from home? would appreciate any tips. We have been to Alaska, but suspect this will be much colder.
I think it depends on where you come from too. If you fly from Australia to Europe (around 20 hours) then you want to see/do as much as possible because it's such a long way to go, and you can 'relax' at home.
I didn't compare UK with US travel agents, but compared US with Australian. Much to the surprise of a couple of US travel agents, they couldn't actually better the price quoted by the Australian TA (which was the same as SS direct). It may well have been the itinerary we were booking.
Ohhh I have done a similar itinerary, but with Celebrity. We did Barcelona to Venice, with stops in Monaco, Nice, Sicily, Rome, Corfu, Croatia and a few other places. My fave port was Sicily, out of your ports (which I didn't expect). Our port in Croatia was Zadar where we did the Krka waterfalls. In Sicily we got to go to Taormina.
I looked at your itinerary and think ours might be quite different, but (as you've indicated) they can change the itinerary at any time to suit the conditions,
He really just needs to be responsible and eat a good breakfast.
Ps: enjoyed the video you linked us too about the do's and don't in the Arctic
I've been reading The Dark Iceland Series by Ragnar Jonasson. He's not quite the Michael Robotham of Iceland, but he's not bad.
We also watched Trapped and Entrapped, and another series called Black Sands.
My hubby had a question for you regarding going on shore in Greenland, with their quarantine regulations (was really interesting when you mentioned velcro carrying potential threats, and amazed us that Australia hasn't adopted this practice with our pretty tight regulations) - are you able to take any food off the vessel? he is a diabetic and usually carries something in case his sugars go too low.
Did you purchase food/lunch in any of the towns?
Can’t wait to catch up on this blog - we are doing Iceland and Greenland in September 2024 on Endeavour, so it was good if you to take this cruise to give us a preview lol
I hope you get to see the whale sharks in Exmouth! we were there in July, a few years ago, and got to see Orcas - sadly, they were hunting baby humpbacks, but were pretty amazing to see.
Perth's population has doubled in the past few years - it's crazy!
Ahh, that would have been Kings Park.
Tiger prawns are really common in Asian and Australian waters, but they have a prominent red tiger stripe to them, and a different head.
https://www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/Home/Seafood/Species-Information/List/tiger-prawn