Random thoughts from the sea
Days 12-14, 2025 European Odyssey Saturday-Monday, July 12-14, 2025; At Sea (Greenland and Labrador Seas, Prins Christian Sund). Greenland is the world’s largest island, at 836,330 square miles. On most maps it looks much larger than it is, due to the distortion of Mercator maps. (If you want to go
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Days 11-13, 2025 European Odyssey Wednesday-Friday, July 9-11, 2025; Húsavík, Akureyri and Ísafjörður, Iceland. When Norse explorers established the first Icelandic settlement in what is now Húsavík in around 860, I’m sure they never would have dreamed that more than a millennium later, the town would be known for its
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Days 6-8, 2025 European Odyssey Friday-Sunday, July 4-6, 2025; Honningsvag, Hammerfest and Alta, Norway. Years ago some guys in a bar in Breckenridge, Colo., asked me where my condo was, and I said, “at the end of the circle.” They proceeded to argue that a circle has no end. I
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Days 4-5, 2025 European Odyssey Wednesday and Thursday, July 2-3, 2025; Trondheim, Norway, and Norwegian Sea. I was late to the game in signing up for a walking tour of Trondheim, Norway. A fellow cruiser on our Cruise Critic roll call (social media threads for each and every cruise) put
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Day 3, 2025 European Odyssey Tuesday, July 1, 2025; Åndalsnes, Norway I’m gearing myself up for a marathon of cruise ports for the next few months. I’m used to long cruises with lots of sea days as we sail across oceans. This summer and fall will consist mainly of two-week
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Day -1, 2025 European Odyssey Saturday, June 28, 2025; Amsterdam, Netherlands I pondered what to call this journey. Previous cruises came with a name — Grand World Voyage, Ultimate Mediterranean, Majestic Japan, Voyage of the Vikings. This time I’m not embarking on a single cruise, but on 10 back-to-back cruises
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