Copenhagen, Denmark was the final stop of our cruise. The day was sunny and warm…actually hot. We were some of the first passengers off the ship. Fortunately we were moored at the closest dock to the city. It took us only ten minutes to walk to the iconic little mermaid statue. She is quite small and surrounded by tourists trying to get their picture with her. Nearby, the smell …
Saturday May 12- We had a twelve hour stop in Rostock, Germany. The cruise ship was charging $25 Canadian per person for a shuttle into town. However when we spoke to the port security guard he told us there was a local bus around the corner. A day pass for this bus was $9 Canadian. Since Graham speaks German we assumed after his conversation with the bus driver that …
Thursday, May 10- at 6:15am the sun shone brightly as we walked around the upper deck. We were in Sweden, making our way through the archipelago towards the port in Stockholm. I’d never been to Sweden but it felt like I was passing cottages in the Muskokas; the rock formations, the islands, the trees and the buildings were so familiar. The ship docked at 8am. We quickly disembarked and …
We took the shuttle bus from the port and were dropped off in central Helsinki. We walked down the tree-lined Esplanade Avenue to the docks of Market Square. From the docks we boarded a small ferry headed to the Suomenlinna Sea Fortress. I now know why there are so many Finnish people in Northern Ontario. Here I was in Helsinki, Finland but it could easily have been a sunny …