We have been home for a couple of weeks now, and life has gotten back to normal. We took about a week to get acclimated to Eastern Daylight Savings Time, six hours different than when we left Copenhagen. We have been able to add photos to all of the posts, and to complete the Photo Albums, which can be accessed from either the menu at the top, of from the…
We are planning another Transatlantic Cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Copenhagen, Denmark aboard the Regal Princess. The cruise will be 14 days in duration, starting on April 17, 2016 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and ending on May 1, 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. We will then stay an additional 3 nights in Copenhagen to explore this city, we have never been to Denmark before in our travels. We will fly…
We have begun formulating plans for what we want to do on each of our port stops on this cruise. Ponta Delgada, Azores The first stop is Ponta Delgada in the Azores. We have been to Ponta Delgada once before on the Transatlantic cruise we did for our honeymoon in September, 2008. On this cruise, we are not in port very long, only seven hours, from 7:00 AM until 2:00…
Our trip starts in 16 Days from today. We have been putting the final touches on some of our plans, specifically for the cruise port stops. We had originally planned on using the Princess Cruise Shore Excursions for two of the stops, Zeebrugges in Brussels and Rotterdam in The Netherlands. However, based on information we were able to get online, we have decided to go on our own for both…
It is one week before we leave on this transatlantic journey, and we are pretty well set with our overall plans for the ports of call. We have finalized our route for the sights we plan to see in the Normandy region of France pertaining to the D-Day invasions. We purchased a new Garmin GPS with both European and US maps, and route planing software that enabled us to plan…
The day of travel for the starting this vacation finally arrived. The week prior to today seemed to go by slowly as we finalized our plans and packed for the trip. Packing was a little difficult since we had to have a combination of some warm weather clothes for a few days at the start of the cruise, but mostly colder weather clothes for the majority of the trip as…
The windy weather continued during the night and also into this morning. We attempted to sleep in a little after yesterday’s tiring travel day. We were only partially successful since the ship was rocking from the waves. I went ahead and got up to see if there would be a sunrise photo opportunity from our balcony. However, since we are heading almost due east, the sun was directly in front…
Once again, we awoke to windy conditions as we head across the Atlantic Ocean. The winds changed directions slightly, but are still mainly from the Northwest and are almost perpendicular to the direction the ship is heading, making for a rolling ride on the ship. We had hoped that the winds would be more from the stern, making for both a smoother ride, and less windy conditions out on the…
We had a much more pleasant start to our day today. There was much less wind last night, and we had turned in earlier (read….. less drinking) so we had a peaceful night’s rest. In addition, we had no change in time, so when we awoke at around 8:00 AM, we were not already behind from losing another hour. We got ready and headed up to the buffet for breakfast,…
Today was the best weather day of the cruise, so far. Of course, after we celebrated like rock stars last night, we slept in this morning. Since we lost another hour of time last night, sleeping in only made it worse, we did not get up and get going until about 9:30 AM on yesterday’s time, and then with loosing another hour, it was really 10:30 AM today. It is like…
We had another great sea day today, the weather has been fantastic, with nice sunny skies, and not a lot of wind. The wind we did have was once again from the stern, but not as strong, so we had a little bit of a breeze on the open decks. Today was like all of the other sea days, relaxing, and once again, we took the opportunity to sleep in.…
It has been our good fortune to have tremendous weather on this crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Once again, we had clear skies today, with light winds and fairly warm temperatures. We have used so much of our warmer weather clothing, we have had to submit two bags of dirty clothes to the ship’s laundry service. Thankfully, it is a free benefit of our Elite status on Princess. The…
We stopped at our first port of call for the cruise today, arriving it Ponta Delgada, Azores, right on schedule at 7:00 AM. We had set our wake up call for 6:30 AM, which was the earliest we had gotten up on any day so far. We have traveled something like 2,600 nautical miles since we left Ft. Lauderdale a week ago. We turned in a little earlier last night,…
We awoke to much cooler weather today as we head in a Northeastern direction toward Cherbourg, France. We will have today and tomorrow at sea before we start with three consecutive port days. We had another one hour time change last night, and the last hour change will be tonight. It seems tone the conversation on the ship, even the assistant cruise directors who announce for the various activities were…
Today is our last sea day before we visit three consecutive ports. Of course, we chose to sleep in a little, but not too late since we are trying to acclimate to getting up early for the port days. The weather was much cooler today, and windy, with mostly sunny skies. We went to the buffet for breakfast, and then went to the Atrium area to visit some of the…
Today’s port stop is in Cherbourg, France. This is our first port since the Azores. Although we did not have any additional time adjustments last night, we still had to get up early today in order to be ready for getting off of the ship at 8:00 AM. We had been good last night and not stayed out late in order to get a good nights rest, but for some…
Today we are in the port of Zeebruge, Belgium. When we awoke at 6:15 AM, it was mostly sunny skies outside, and we were heading toward the port. We got ready and brought some breakfast to the room so we could enjoy going into port while packing up our backpacks for the day’s activities. During preparation for getting off of the ship, I noticed that we were not actually scheduled…
This morning, we were awaken by our phone alarm at 5:15 AM, the earliest wake up call yet. I had gotten up a little earlier before the call, and noticed that we were already passing by container cranes and other port equipment, already heading up the Rotte River to Rotterdam. After showering and dressing, I headed down to get some breakfast from the International Cafe. We ate our usual yogurt…
It is always sad when it is the last day of the cruise, and today is that day. Fortunately, it is a sea day, so we have all day to rest up from our port days, and to pack up our clothes. We will be doing the “Walk Off” Disembarkation with all of our luggage, so we do not have to pack up and have our luggage outside of the…
This morning’s wake up call came early at 6:00 AM. However, my internal wake up call came at about 5:30 AM, I suppose that was due to thinking about getting off of the ship, and all of the things we needed to do this morning. I was able to upload some pictures to the web site photo albums while I was waiting for the wake-up call to come through. We…
We awoke to a really sunny morning this morning at about 6:45 AM. We had closed our curtains on the windows last night, but the sun was really bright coming in around the curtains. We had a great nights sleep, there was no problems with noise out on the streets, after about 9:00 PM, everything really quieted down, and there was hardly any traffic. We wanted to get an early…
Today is our last day of touring in Copenhagen. Tomorrow we will be flying home, and the vacation will be over. When we woke up at about 6:30 AM, it was bright and sunny outside. It is interesting that the sunrise happens very early in the morning, sometime around 4:30 AM, it is starting to get light outside. So, by the time we normally get up, it is very bright…
Well, it is time for us to travel home today, after a great cruise and our time in Copenhagen. We both slept well last night, and I did not wake up until about 4:30 AM, mainly due to some noise I heard that was obviously someone leaving the hotel with luggage for an early light. The noise was the clunking of wheeled luggage done the flight of stairs from the…