September 2013

If you are lucky enough to be cruising during the month, please list your cruise and the date and we will do our best to stalk you along your journey to get a glimpse of your ship. Please list your dates and ports.

Four of us on are the Silver Shadow for this trip. We'll be staying in Tokyo for four days post cruise.

Sep 12 Thu Vancouver, Canada 6:00 PM
Sep 13 Fri Cruising the Inside Passage
Sep 14 Sat Ketchikan, Alaska, USA 8:00 AM 4:00 PM
Sep 15 Sun Cruising Tracyarm/Sawyer Glacier 7:00 AM 10:00 AM
Sep 15 Sun Juneau, Alaska, USA 1:00 PM 11:00 PM
Sep 16 Mon Skagway, Alaska, USA 7:00 AM 5:00 PM
Sep 17 Tue Day at Sea
Sep 18 Wed Kodiak, Alaska, USA 9:00 AM 4:00 PM
Sep 19 Thu Day at Sea
Sep 20 Fri Day at Sea
Sep 21 Sat Cross International Date Line (Lose a Day)
Sep 22 Sun Day at Sea
Sep 23 Mon Day at Sea
Sep 24 Tue Petropavlosk (Kamchatka), Russia 7:00 AM 6:00 PM
Sep 25 Wed Day at Sea
Sep 26 Thu Day at Sea
Sep 27 Fri Hakodate, Japan 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Sep 28 Sat Day at Sea
Sep 29 Sun Tokyo, Japan

We are renting a car in Skagway and driving up to Emerald Lake in Yukon Terr for lunch. In Petropavlosk Linda (our other cousin) and I are doing the ATVs to the Volcano Park. Second cruise on SS for us but first on Shadow.

Alan and I are taking our 4th Tauck land tour, England, Scotland and Wales, Sept. 15, for 14 days! Tour begins in Edinburgh and ends in London. Spending a few days in Scotland pre, and London, post.

David and I are returning to the Amazon for another week of Peacock Bass (tucunaré) fishing - we did this a couple of years ago. Our "cruising" is aboard an 8 "suite" houseboat . Although we do have private "bathrooms", it's not exactly a Regent 5 star experience! But we are there to fish, not be pampered! We do still enjoy all different types of experiences!

USNA72
As you leave the Silver Shadow, my husband and I will be arriving on the same ship in Tokyo. We've been on Silversea in Asia before and are excited about this cruise.

DonnaG

Sept 29 Tokyo
Sept 30 At sea
Oct 1 Hiroshoma
Oct 2 Busan, S. Korea
Oct 3 Jeju, S. Korea
Oct 4 At sea
Oct 5-6 Beijing
Oct 7 At sea
Oct 8-9 Shanghai

Denise,
Sounds like a great trip . Please make sure you let us know how it goes.

Donna,
We'll try to leave the Shadow in tact for your use . There is at least one couple from UK that are getting on with us and staying on to Shanghai. In the FWIW category there is a SS Meet 'N' Mingle set up for your cruise on the CC board if you're interested.

Greg

Ray and I are doing the Rocky Mountaineer Train trip from Vancouver to Vancouver, "the Grand Rail Circle"...September 4th to 16th 2014.

This is our 50th anniversary on the 5th, and Ray really wanted to do this trip as did I. Needless to say we are doing the Gold Leaf Deluxe Service.More bang for your buck.

Here is their addy: http://www.rockymountaineer.com

I called them direct and booked it very early(back in Nov.2012) and got an $800.00 pp value package as well.

2013 is our year of land travel only...March was Barbados, April was Iqaluit, September British Columbia and Alberta.

Would have loved to have done a cruise in September, but no itineraries appealed to us.

Cheers,

Hi and thanks, Greg. Will certainly let you know. Yours and Gretchen's trip sounds fantastic and we'd love hearing about it when you return. Best to you and Gretchen from Alan and me!

DonnaG,

You and your husband will not be the lone LCT cruisers on your leg! Mark and I and John and Tonya will be joining you!! It will be the 4th time on Silversea for all of us and second on the Shadow.

Mark and I are spending three nights in Tokyo precruise (J & T for one night) staying at the Westin and we are all spending four nights in Shanghai postcruise at Le Royal Meridien. We are venturing into Beijing on our own and overnighting at The Fairmont.

Looking forward to meeting you and will join the Meet and Mingle on CC.

Suzanne
Great to know someone on the cruise. It's our 2nd Silversea cruise.
We are going to be in Tokyo 1 night precruise and in Shanghai 2 nights after. I'm still planning what we are going to do in Beijing. I've been there twice but my husband has not been there. However, he is not the sightseer that I am and, being diabetic, has a difficult time with walking distances. I do tend to book private cars with guides for our travels together and that works for us.
I'm looking into taking the high-speed train into Beijing, mid-morning, with a guide, touring by car for the afternoon and overnighting at Fairmont, Raffles or the like. Then we would sightsee or shop(he's the shopper) the next morning but get back on board ship by afternoon. Still working on it as well as working on the other ports.
DonnaG

Suzanne
Great to know someone on the cruise. It's our 2nd Silversea cruise.
We are going to be in Tokyo 1 night precruise and in Shanghai 2 nights after. I'm still planning what we are going to do in Beijing. I've been there twice but my husband has not been there. However, he is not the sightseer that I am and, being diabetic, has a difficult time with walking distances. I do tend to book private cars with guides for our travels together and that works for us.
I'm looking into taking the high-speed train into Beijing, mid-morning, with a guide, touring by car for the afternoon and overnighting at Fairmont, Raffles or the like. Then we would sightsee or shop(he's the shopper) the next morning but get back on board ship by afternoon. Still working on it as well as working on the other ports.
DonnaG

Finally doing the Galapagos with Celebrity beginning the 13th!

My husband and I will be sailing on the Mariner, Sept 25th from Athens.

Joan and I are also on the Sept. 25 cruise from Athens to Istanbul as well as the following cruise from Istanbul to Rome (MARINER).

Sep 25 Wed Athens (Piraeus), Greece 6:00 PM
Sep 26 Thu Santorini, GreeceAnchor Port 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Sep 27 Fri Aghios Nikolaos, Crete 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Sep 28 Sat Cruise the Mediterranean Sea
Sep 29 Sun Jerusalem (Haifa), Israel 6:00 AM 8:00 PM
Sep 30 Mon Tel Aviv (Ashdod), Israel 6:00 AM
Oct 1 Tue Tel Aviv (Ashdod), Israel 6:00 PM
Oct 2 Wed Limassol, Cyprus 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Oct 3 Thu Antalya, Turkey 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Oct 4 Fri Rhodes, Greece 8:00 AM 6:00 PM
Oct 5 Sat Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Oct 6 Sun Istanbul, Turkey 2:00 PM
Oct 7 Mon Istanbul, Turkey