Versailles, The Special Dinner
14 aprile 2025, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
The dinner was an epic and unforgettable dream of my life!
Paris, Day Three
15 aprile 2025, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
From Versailles, we took a 45-minute coach to Paris for a few hours to see the sights, visit the Musée d'Orsay Museum, and then return to the Silver Dawn.
...Well, the lines to purchase tickets toLeggi altro
Sea Day
16 aprile 2025, North Sea ⋅ 🌬 50 °F
Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
17–18 apr 2025, Olanda ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
We have two events today:
The first is the "Windmills and Edam" excursion to visit windmills & shops in a local tourist stop named De Zaanse Schans. Then off to Edam, a small historic berg known forLeggi altro
Amsterdam, Day One, Part 2
17 aprile 2025, Olanda ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
This afternoon, we took a stroll into downtown Amsterdam. Early evening, we took a two hour excursion in the canals and saw a few of the some 1,500 bridges
Amsterdam, Day Two
18 aprile 2025, Olanda ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F
This morning, we visited the Rijksmuseum, home of many Dutch Golden Age artists and their masterpieces. What a beautiful museum.
Amsterdam, Day Two, Part 2
18 aprile 2025, Olanda ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
More from the Rijksmuseum.
Amsterdam, Day Two, Part 3, Tulips!
18 aprile 2025, Olanda ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Let the pictures speak for themselves!
Keukenhof is the world's largest spring flower garden, showcasing millions of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and other spring-flowering bulbs.
It serves as anLeggi altro
Day Two, Part 3b, More Tulips!
18 aprile 2025, Olanda ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Sea Day
19 aprile 2025, North Sea ⋅ ☀️ 46 °F
Hamburg, Lubeck, Germany
20–21 apr 2025, Germania ⋅ ⛅ 45 °F
Our 9:30am excursion to Lubeck... the Queen City of the Hanseatic League (1600 to 1900) began with a drive through Hamburg's Red Light District, where we saw the most popular ATM dispenser in theLeggi altro
Lubeck - Hospital of the Holy Spirit
20 aprile 2025, Germania ⋅ ⛅ 48 °F
Today's excursion began at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit. The building was completed in 1286 and is one of the oldest social institutions still in existence in the world.
After visiting theLeggi altro
Hamburg, Day Two, Bergen-Belsen Memorial
21 aprile 2025, Germania ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F
Today, we are off on a pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen Memorial Nazi concentration camp where some 70,000 prisoners lost their lives, including Anne Frank. The grim toll included 30,000 Jews, 20,000Leggi altro
Sea Day
22 aprile 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F
Last night"s comedian was Darrell Joyce. Funny!
Copenhagen, Denmark, Day One
23–24 apr 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F
This morning, we took the "Royal Treasures, Castle & City" excursion.
Copenhaven, Day One, Part 2
23 aprile 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
Today we took an excursion to the Rosenborg Castle.
This Renaissance castle was built by King Christian IV in the early 17th century and served as a royal residence until around 1710.
The castleLeggi altro
Copenhagen, Day One, Part 3
23 aprile 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
Here are more pictures taken inside the Rosenborg Castle, including the crown jewels
Copenhagen, Day One, Part 4
23 aprile 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Late in the day, we took a relaxing excursion through the harbor waterways where we saw a variety of historic buildings & locations.
Copenhagen, Day Two
24 aprile 2025, Danimarca ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F
Our excursion today was "Wonderful Copenhagen & Tivoli."
We started the tour by visiting St Alban's, the "only Anglican church" in Denmark. We looked about the church grounds for 30 minutes and thenLeggi altro
Sea Day
25 aprile 2025, Baltic Sea ⋅ ☁️ 41 °F
Helsinki, Finland
26 aprile 2025, Finlandia ⋅ ⛅ 36 °F
Today, our 9:30am Helsinki/Porvoo excursion was a little on the cold side...32 degrees, so we bundled up in our puffers, and upon arriving in Porvoo we walked a few streets. We saw the oldestLeggi altro
Tallinn, Estonia
27–28 apr 2025, Estonia ⋅ ☀️ 37 °F
We are in Tallinn, just across the narrowest part of the Baltic Sea from Helsinki.
Today, we are doing a coach/walking tour!
Tallinn, Day Two
28 aprile 2025, Estonia ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
Our second day began with a walking excursion ending in a presentation at Raeapleet, the earliest and still working pharmacy in Europe; approximately 600 years old.
Stockholm, Sweden
29–30 apr 2025, Svezia ⋅ 🌙 50 °F
This morning, we took the "Abba Museum & City Drive" excursion. All things Abba...happy music!
The city is majestic, clean, and pretty well-to-do.
Stockholm Day One, Part 2
29 aprile 2025, Svezia ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
Yes! Another special event - A Night With ABBA - for world cruise travelers! Silversea provided a beautiful dinner and entertainment event which featured ABBA entertainers flown in from Oslo.
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