I’ve gotten a lot of questions this past week regarding our Summer Vacation and wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of those this week. In case you missed it, we sailed aboard the Sapphire Princess from Southampton June 29 – July 6, 2019. The ports of call were Bruges, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Skagen, Denmark* and Oslo, Norway. Unfortunately it was too windy for us to visit Skagen, but that did give us the opportunity to spend extra time in Oslo.
How was the weather? Beautiful! The weather was absolutely beautiful. We had been watching the forecast for weeks to see what the trends were. Just before we left for London temperatures were forecast to be quite warm, in the 90’s in fact. Luckily, that forecast did not hold up and we had temperatures in the 70’s in London and even down in the 50’s in Scandinavia
Why did you choose a cruise? With our family dynamic a cruise was the perfect choice. The itinerary was unique in that none of us had visited these ports previously. The ship served as our hotel while we were able to visit three new destinations without the hassle of traveling between them on our own. Most important, we could vacation at our own pace. For me, sea days are spent pool side with my nose in a book. My daughter spent her time in the pool with Dad, playing cards with her Uncle or putting a puzzle together with her Grandparents. When we were in port we all had choices to fit our pace. For example, in Copenhagen we took the hop on hop off bus with our friends; my brother and his partner took an Uber to town to explore on their own; and my parents did a slower pace tour with a small group. The funny thing is that we ran into each of them during the day. Once back onboard we met up at dinner and spent the time sharing our stories from the day.
How many people went with you? Just in our group there were 11, myself and my family as well as two couples who are long time friends and clients.
Did you all do everything together? Absolutely not! See above about our time in Copenhagen. Other ports were similar. We also did our own thing before and after our cruise. My husband, daughter and I spent 4 nights exploring London before the cruise while the others flew over the day before the cruise began to join us in London. Once the cruise was over we all went our separate ways, my husband, daughter and I went to Paris for 3 nights, my brother stayed in London a few nights, my parents went off on another cruise around Ireland and the UK and our friends had a wonderful 4 days immersing themselves in the English Countryside and visiting Highclere Castle of Downton Abbey fame.
Will you do another trip where clients can come along? Yes, yes, yes! We’re considering hosting a river cruise through France in the fall of 2019 or 2020. If you would like to get more information on how to join us on that trip simply email me through this link. Of course, we are open to suggestions on where to go as well. Perhaps there’s a spot you would like to visit, but aren’t quite comfortable enough to jump on that by yourself, let us know and we’ll consider joining you and opening that up to other clients to form a small group.
If you have questions about my trip, I’d love to chat, please reach out. Maybe something I posted to sparked an interest for your future travels, if that’s the case, click here and let’s get started with your plans.
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