Tuesday July 23, 2024 Animals are part of every village, and seem to have freedom to roam around. Today we saw these cute little kittens...

Sunday and Monday July 21 and 22, 2024 Sunday we took a trip to Castelo Rodrigo in the hills above the Douro river in Portugal. And...

Saturday July 20, 2024 Quick note - If you were interested in the story of the bats in the library that was in yesterday's blog, I posted...

Friday, July 19, 2024 To start today's blog, here is a beautiful picture Karen took yesterday evening in Lisbon. One of the charming...

Thursday July 18, 2024 Our hotel and Breakfast Buffet. The Corinthian Hotel in Lisbon is a beautiful hotel with nice outdoor areas and...

Wednesday July 17, 2024 We arrived in Lisbon around 9:00 a.m. this morning, tired and a little jet lagged. Fortunately going through...

Sunday, February 11, 2024 Today we are in Rotoroa, Tauranga. It is another beautiful, windy day. Rotoroa seems to be a larger city than...

Saturday, February 10, 2024 (Australian time) Today was a beautiful day here in Napier, New Zealand. Beautiful blue sky with a few puffy...

Friday February 9, 2024 (New Zealand time) Kia ora (hello in Maori)! Imagine yourself in the area of land that will one day be called New...

Thursday February 8, 2024 This morning we woke up in Lyttelton, New Zealand, which is the closest port city to Christchurch. ...

February 7, 2024 After two days relaxing at sea it was hard to get up and get going this morning. And the time change didn't help! ...

February 5th and 6th, 2024 (New Zealand time) Sea Days are days when the ship is traveling to a new location. So, in this blog we will...

February 4, 2024 Hobart, Tasmania Let's start with the Tasmanian Devil! Actually, we didn't see a real one, but we learned a lot about...

February 2, 2004 (on Australian time) After a relaxing day at sea we arrived in Melbourne. Melbourne is the second most populous city in...

January 31, 2024 Woohoo! We made it to Australia, and are onboard the Viking Orion in the Sydney Harbor! The Sydney Harbor is not only...

January 28/29, 2024 Where Are We? Do you recognize the scenes above? Sooo... we weren't planning on writing a blog about our travel day....

November 3, 2023 We extended our time in Paris at the end of our cruise by one day so that we could go to Normandy. Nicolle has a friend...

November 2, 2023 Today started with the breakfast buffet at the hotel. The buffet presentation was nicely done, with a large variety of...

November 1, 2023 Leaving the ship is always a challenge - there is the challenge in packing up everything up the night before, then you...