Stephanie and I are currently planning the details of our cruise, mainly what we want to see and do in each Port of Call. The purpose of this cruise is to celebrate our Birthdays, both of which are in April. This cruise will be for my 50th Birthday Celebration, and will be for Stephanie’s …..(well I will be nice and not state which birthday this is for her!!) XX Birthday. We will celebrate Stephanie’s on the actual day, April 15th, during one of our day’s at sea crossing the Atlantic. We will pick a “belated” date to celebrate my birthday, since it occurs on the 6th, prior to our departure date on the 10th.
The cruise is a 15 day Transatlantic cruise, with Ports of Call in Bermuda, Scotland, Ireland (2), Great Britain (2) and France, ending up in Southampton, UK. The original plan was to then travel to London by train, and spend two additional nights in London before departing on our flight back to Jacksonville.
Although the cruise “officially” ends in Southampton, UK, we now plan on leaving the ship a day earlier, at the port of Le Havre, France. We will travel from Le Havre to Paris by train, and spend the night in a Paris hotel. This will allow us to avoid the 2.5 hour return trip to the ship in Le Havre, and giving us a few more hours to see Paris, and especially to see Paris at night. We will leave Paris on Saturday afternoon, April 25, and take the “Chunnel” Train to London. Once there, we will spend two nights in London, per the original plan, and depart Gatwick Airport on Monday, April 27 for the flight home.
We start the trip with a drive in a rental car to Ft. Lauderdale early on the morning of Friday, April 10, 2009.
Well, off to do more planning for the trip…….