Cruise Around Iberia (Page 4): i love the shot of that beautiful bridge in no 5 and enjoyed the nice shots you took while cruising around Iberia! :sm02:...

merrytexan Loc: georgia

cameraf4 wrote:

Last trip of 2019 was a cruise from Lisbon Portugal to Barcelona Spain.

i love the shot of that beautiful bridge in no 5 and enjoyed the nice shots you took while cruising around Iberia!

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

merrytexan wrote:

i love the shot of that beautiful bridge in no 5 and enjoyed the nice shots you took while cruising around Iberia!

Thanks. The tile work at Plaza de Espana was nothing short of amazing.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

cameraf4 wrote:

Last trip of 2019 was a cruise from Lisbon Portugal to Barcelona Spain.

I'm behind on the forum, but I enjoyed your photos.

We had 6 nights reserved in Marbella and 5 in Barcelona on spring break this year and had a Viking cruise booked from Venice to Barcelona in June. Of course both got cancelled. We took Viking up on their offer of a 125% voucher and are doing the cruise in the reverse order in 2022 and have added a 2 day pre-cruise extension in Barcelona. We also will have a full day in Barcelona on the ship. We also added a river cruise from Basel to Amsterdam. We spent 11 days in Spain in 1973, but haven't been back since. We are hoping travel is back to normal in 2022.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

DJphoto wrote:

I'm behind on the forum, but I enjoyed your photos... (show quote)

Hope that your travel plans work out, DJ. Barcelona-to-Venice sounds great. My first cruise was down the Adriatic to Rome and it couldn't have been better.
I did the Amsterdam-to-Basel a couple years ago. Keep your camera at-the-ready. Definitely a target rich area. And the wine was pretty good, too.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

DJphoto wrote:

I'm behind on the forum, but I enjoyed your photos... (show quote)

125%? Bummer. My tour to Spain and Portugal for my birthday last month was cancelled and I only got credit for the money I paid. C'est la vie. I used it (plus an extra $63) to book a trip to Ireland same time next year. When I went for my first int'l trip quite a few years ago I went to England, Scotland and Wales - Ireland was an extra 3-day(?) extension that I was the only person on the bus that didn't do (I couldn't take the extra vacation time from work and couldn't afford it). I'm going to make up for it bigtime, assuming the US gets the pandemic under control. The trip is a two week affair. Have fun on your trip!

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

planepics wrote:

125%? Bummer. My tour to Spain and Portugal for ... (show quote)

Our original trip was a 3 night pre-cruise with 2 nights in Lake Como and one in Verona, then board the ship in Venice, no extra days in Barcelona, 17 days total. Our new trip is a 2 day pre-cruise in Barcelona, 14 days to sail to Venice, a 2 day post-cruise in Venice (in addition to the day there at the end of the cruise), a day on our own (probably either Verona or Lake Como), a 3 day pre-cruise in Lake Como, an 8 day river cruise from Basel to Amsterdam, finishing with a 2 day post-cruise in Amsterdam, 33 days total. We got the whole thing for a little more than the river cruise fare for one of us.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

I'm jealous. My longest trip was 16 days in 2016 to Israel. Maybe when I retire I'll be able to go on a supertrip.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

planepics wrote:

I'm jealous. My longest trip was 16 days in 2016 to Israel. Maybe when I retire I'll be able to go on a supertrip.

Our longest trip was in 1973. We arrived in Amsterdam on our second wedding anniversary and spent 11 weeks going all over Europe. I had one semester left in college and my wife had a year left. Careers and 5 children and then 45 years later we arrived in Bergen for a 2 week cruise for our second trip to Europe. They were the two best vacations we've ever had. We have only had one other vacation longer than two weeks, which was 17 days in Hawaii last summer. I'll be posting the photos from our cruise from Bergen to the Midnight Sun soon, probably next week. I'm also in the early planning stages for a drive around New Zealand of around 3 weeks.

So many places to go........

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

Not many people now days have marriages that last. About a week and a half ago my parents celebrated their 66th anniversary (however there wasn't really any celebrating going on). My sister got married on their 50th. I'm the 3rd out of 4 children (two older brothers). My mom used to be a travel agent when it was a more glamourous and profitable (discounts, etc.). She's been to well over 80 countries.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

planepics wrote:

Not many people now days have marriages that last. About a week and a half ago my parents celebrated their 66th anniversary (however there wasn't really any celebrating going on). My sister got married on their 50th. I'm the 3rd out of 4 children (two older brothers). My mom used to be a travel agent when it was a more glamourous and profitable (discounts, etc.). She's been to well over 80 countries.

Congratulations to your parents on their 66th! We celebrated 49 years last month. We've been to almost 20 countries, most of them on our 1973 trip. I've been to 42 states (about half of them on business trips, but I squeezed in a day or so extra when I could). There aren't too many countries the we haven't been to the we want to go to, maybe a dozen at most. After Europe, our next priorities are New Zealand and Australia and a cruise from Buenos Aires to Santiago Chile. A return trip or two back to Canada is also in our plan for the next few years.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

Last cruise I took was for my 50th birthday...took the Celebrity Solstice from Seattle through the Inside Passage. Alaska was the last state to get to. The other 2 or 3 cruises have been to somewhere in the Caribbean. When I drove a semi for 3 years I visited the lower 48 and was in Hawai'i back in 1991. I've been to maybe a dozen counties, but I'd have to count them up. My ever-thickening bucket list includes Thailand, Africa, and Australia.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

planepics wrote:

Last cruise I took was for my 50th birthday...took the Celebrity Solstice from Seattle through the Inside Passage. Alaska was the last state to get to. The other 2 or 3 cruises have been to somewhere in the Caribbean. When I drove a semi for 3 years I visited the lower 48 and was in Hawai'i back in 1991. I've been to maybe a dozen counties, but I'd have to count them up. My ever-thickening bucket list includes Thailand, Africa, and Australia.

Our 2018 cruise was our first. We put a deposit on a 14 day Princes cruise from San Francisco to Alaska but decided that we didn't want to be on a ship with 2,600 passengers, looked around and found Viking (930 passengers), got our deposit back from Princess, booked the cruise Into the Midnight Sun and doubt we'll ever go on anything other than Viking again. We own a timeshare in Kauai and go there at least every other year; we love Kauai. We're anxious to get back traveling. We have 11 nights booked in Kauai for next year and hope it is OK to go then.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

DJphoto wrote:

Our original trip was a 3 night pre-cruise with 2 ... (show quote)

33 days! When you come back you may be reclassified as an "immigrant."

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

cameraf4 wrote:

33 days! When you come back you may be reclassified as an "immigrant."

I wasn't after 77 days in 1973.