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No time. He is far too busy!

Unfortunately this year we are in the middle of a Canada Post strike that is messing up all sorts of things. But in a normal year, Santa's elves (post office volunteers) reply to letters to Santa sent to: Santa Claus North Pole H0H 0H0 Canada

Unless you are sailing the Main, when the sundeck is unavailable and so, if there is a separate outdoor area at the prow (not on all lines) it is much busier.

I did mine on Uniworld too, although it was back in 2011. The concert itself was definitely specifically for tourists, which isn't a bad thing in and of itself. These types of performances are found all over Vienna. You will find people dressed as Mozart on every corner hawking tickets to these tourist performances at various venues. As for ours, I found the room much too hot (it was midsummer and no air conditioning), and the chairs were very uncomfortable. The music and dance were fine.

That passenger count suggests that it was probably a Viking ship.

I assume that the crust would be made of Spekulaas which are Dutch ginger snaps.

There are some specific Canadian bank machines that do dispense US$. I'm pretty sure that I have seen it at some CIBC machines; I don't know about other banks. You will pay the banks usual (poor) exchange rate and transaction fees, but the money will come out of your Canadian $ account.

Where are you disembarking?

That was the precise date. I kept checking vy.no for the new timetable. Once it appeared, I started checking Norway’s Best daily. For some bizarre reason, as soon as the date I was looking for first showed up, when I clicked on it, it said no times were available. I actually emailed Norway’s Best, and they said be patient. I just kept checking and a day or 2 later, I was able to book the date I wanted, which was over 6 months away.

It worked for me on my iPhone 14+ running iOS 18.1

Is it a bridge carrying the Maare-Mosel rail trail?

What number are you actually looking for as the "count"? Is it the number of users that have posted in the roll call? What about the number of people that have viewed posts in the roll call? Is looking at one post sufficient to count, or is there a minimum number of posts that you have to look at to "qualify"? Since you don't have to actually register in the specific roll call, how can you be counted? (In other platforms you have to actually join the specific group in order to count. People who just view content wouldn't be included in that count either.)

Other lines may not have as many boats, but many of them also do ship swaps. Some of them also can continue to sail when Viking can't, due to a shallower draft.

Wow. That amazes me.

It helps if you get the name of the hotel correct before you google it. It is the Pullman Montparnasse hotel. 🙂

You want a pre-arranged car service, not a taxi.

The Merlijn is a bike and barge boat. When I did my bike and barge from Cochem, we docked on the opposite side of the Moselle from the old town, right near the bridge, directly at the quay.

It's called a chimney cake.

I’m sure there was a previous thread on this in this forum. Try a search.

I don't know about the National Express coaches, but the disadvantage of the first row on some coaches is that there is a solid panel in front of your legs, and there is no way to stretch them out.

I know you know what you meant, but you worded it wrong. The ban is not on zero emission ships, the ban will be on NON zero emission ships, i.e. all ships will need to BE zero emissions.

I really think that the OP was asking about whether passengers serve themselves from a buffet or whether there is staff to do the serving. I don't believe the issue was table service. The question came from a health perspective.

The train schedule is available to early December on vy.no. The 2024 schedule was the same as the 2023, so I assume that the 2025 schedule will likely still be the same. Last year the new schedule came out in early December and I was able to book the return trip with Norway's Best on December 13. I actually booked 2 return trips because I was worried about the timing, which was a good thing because the original schedule had the fjord cruise earlier than the 9:30 it turned out to be on the new zero-emissions ferry, so as soon as I knew that for sure I cancelled by reservation on the earlier train.

There may be different rules in Norway and Iceland, as well as different rules for different ports. My cruise tendered at both Geiranger and Flam. In each case there was the possibility of docking. My thought was that because we were the smallest ship in port, our tendering would create less traffic and pollution because fewer trips would be required than for the larger ship in port with us. I have no idea if that is the reason, but that was my thought.