June 2006

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.

Uh oh...I think I feel a final payment coming due!

Our cruise is named WAVE
There are 9 of us from LCT Booked that I know of and a few from elsewhere!

We're meeting for cocktails at 7 pre dinner or the Pool Bar if there is a sailaway party on the top deck (which there probably is!)

Jun 9 Friday Monte Carlo
Jun 10 Saturday At Sea
Jun 11 Sunday Malaga
Jun 12 Monday Lisbon
Jun 13 Tuesday Lisbon
Jun 14 Wednesday Vigo
Jun 14 Wednesday La Coruna
Jun 15 Thursday Santander
Jun 16 Friday Bordeaux
Jun 17 Saturday At Sea
Jun 18 Sunday Honfleur
Jun 19 Monday Dover

We are also cruising this month....our cruise is called BLISS and here is the itinerary:


Jun 19 Monday Dover
Jun 20 Tuesday Ijmuiden (Amsterdam)
Jun 21 Wednesday At Sea
Jun 22 Thursday Warnemünde (for Berlin)
Jun 23 Friday Visby
Jun 24 Saturday Tallinn
Jun 25 Sunday St. Petersburg
Jun 26 Monday St. Petersburg Country
Jun 27 Tuesday St. Petersburg Informal
Jun 28 Wednesday Stockholm
Jun 29 Thursday Stockholm
Jun 30 Friday Copenhagen
Jul 1 Saturday Copenhagen

Cheers, Pam

Yeah! I've been waiting for this. :ch: :ch:

We're on WAVE, Monte-Carlo to Dover, with Kathy and Frank, Fred and Pat, Greg and others.

Edited to add: yes, I feel a payment coming on--about a month from now I think, time to get to work!

Jun 9 Friday Monte Carlo
Jun 10 Saturday At Sea
Jun 11 Sunday Malaga
Jun 12 Monday Lisbon
Jun 13 Tuesday Lisbon
Jun 14 Wednesday Vigo
Jun 14 Wednesday La Coruna
Jun 15 Thursday Santander
Jun 16 Friday Bordeaux
Jun 17 Saturday At Sea
Jun 18 Sunday Honfleur
Jun 19 Monday Dover

WAVE, aye!

Yippee...the long awaited "are you cruising in June thread"! :banana:

Tom and I will be on the Mariner:

June 28 Whittier
June 29 Cruising
June 30 Sitka
July 01 Tracy Arm cruising
July 01 Juneau
July 02 Skagway
July 03 Ketchikan
July 04 Cruise the Inside Passage
July 05 Vancouver, B.C.

We fly in to Anchorage June 27 and will spend one night there and take the train to Whittier. After we disembark we will spend one night in Vancouver and fly home on July 6.

Pre Cruise London and Paris/Peter Deilmann River Cruise:

Two full days in London (thanks to British Airways free stopover and hotel promo!) and three full days in Paris (thanks to Le Grand InterContinental!). Private walking tours - London Walks and Paris Walks.

Peter Deilmann Seine River Cruise MS Cezanne (thanks to winning $3,000 towards a river cruise!)

Saturday June 3 Paris
Sunday June 4 Paris
Monday June 5 Rouen
Monday June 5 Le Havre (Honfleur)
Tuesday June 6 Le Havre (Honfluer)
Wednesday June 7 Caudebec-en-Caux
Thursday June 8 Rouen
Friday June 9 Les Andelys Morning
Friday June 9 Vernon (Giverny)Afternoon
Saturday June 10 Paris

Sounds incredible Denise - you and Alan will have the BEST time!!!!!!! Joanna

Denise, I can't wait for your reports. Very curious about a river boat trip. I know with all of your planning that you and Alan will have a ball!

Denise, I've been interested in a river cruise for a few years. My big desire is to cruise the Danube. Yours sounds really nice. In Honfleur, the Eugene Boudin Museum is a must see. He was an impressionist and teacher to Monet, I think. Honfleur will remind you on Portofino in a way, though with a French accent. It is quite lovely and picturesque. I am so jealous that you get to go to Giverny. I have been "dying" to get there since I read the children's book and saw the video, Linnea in Monet's Garden.

Thanks, Joanna, Donna and Beth! Yes, we really are looking forward to this very new experience. Winning that Deilmann contest afforded us a great opportunity to give this a try.

Thanks for your wonderful suggestions, Beth! I hear Honfleur is charming. We've never been to Portofino. A visit to Giverny and Monet's house! Well! I can hardly wait! The Danube river cruise interests us, too. If we like this river cruise as much as we are anticipating, we would greatly consider that. The only reason we chose the Seine itinerary is because I have a connection at Le Grand InterCon in Paris and it is a great time to stay there, pre-cruise. He is soon transferring to our new property in Bora Bora! And, we've never been to Paris.

Of course, I will report back and give you the scoop from our perspective and experiences.

Denise,

I too will be waiting for your report on your river cruise. A few years ago we considered doing the Cezanne as well but then decided instead to do Navigator to Alaska!

I went to Giverney a few years ago and even though it was not peak season(we went in August) for the gardens it was a fantastic experience! If you are an admirer of Monet like I am you will see in the gardens/ bridge/ pond the inspiration for so many of his paintings!

Like Beth says, Honfleur is delightful. I see you are there 2 days so , if interested, you could probably also do the D-day beaches.

Denise, it goes without saying - you'll have a wonderful experience and isn't it wonderful that you won the cruise!

My son and I will be on BLISS but somewhere along the line I managed to miss what it stands for. I believe there will be a few LCTers going and am really looking forward to it. This is only my second cruise but have definitely been 'bitten'. Lee

Lee,

BLISS stands for:

Baltic Lands In Scandinavian Sea

Beautiful name!

Maria,

I am very much an admirer of Monet! Looking forward to all the ports. I think it will be a really lovely itinerary and we are ready for a great new experience.

We will be visiting Honfleur both this year and next. Our Med cruise on the Voyager, June 2, 2007, will have a stopover there, too. If it's as nice as everyone says it is, we'll welcome a return visit.

Lee,

Winning only made this trip that much sweeter! I hope your trip plans are coming together nicely! BLISS sounds wonderful!

Denise, I too am terribly jealous of the whole trip, but especially the visit to Giverny. I even thought of trying to get there the day we are in Honfleur on WAVE, but decided it would be a long trip, and everybody says Honfleur is very pleasant. Monet will have to wait for another time.

Denise, your trip sounds so exquisite.
We are thinking for where to go in Honfleur. We've never been to Paris, it was one of the excurions from the ship but it's 120 miles each way from port, so, we may just save it for another time.

We are sailing on the Oceania Regatta June 20th, Dover to Stockholm!! We are looking for one more couple to join us touring St. Petersburg, would make it a party of six.

6/21 - Zeebrugge Belgium
6/22 - Amsterdam
6/23 - Kiel Canal Germany
6/24 - Warnemuende, Germany
6/25 - Copenhagen,
6/26 - Gdansk, Poland
6/27 - At sea
6/28 - Helsinki
6/29 - St. Petersburg +6/30 & 7/1
7/02 - Tallinn
7/03 Stockholm
7/04 - Home to the good old USA

Kathy and Wendy,

It seems there never is enough time to see it all, is there? Whatever we miss the first time around in Honfleur, we will be sure to do next year.

I will be really looking forward to your WAVE reports. I know you both will be sharing some excellent information and experiences.

With the exception of private touring in London and Paris, we will take the Deilmann excursions. The cost is quite reasonable.

Wishing you a wonderful time on your Oceania cruise, Jeanine! It's a fantastic itinerary! I hope you, too, will report back on the great time you had!

Kathy,

I don't know if you would be interested as it makes for a long day( from Honfleur) but the experience of going to the D-Day beaches and the American Cemetery on Omaha Beach is very moving. That is one experience I'll never forget! I want to take my kids some day as it is a very graphic way of understanding the sacrifices that the US did during WWII

Maria,

We are hoping to be able to do what you've suggested, if at all possible.

Thanks!

Denise,

You won't regret it. Bring plenty of kleenex!

If you are still looking for people to share tours with you on Oceania Jeanine have you tried the Yahoo board ( for Oceania?)..cick below
Http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanacruiser.messages

Hi Claudia, yes we have, still no response. Hope you are doing ok. Was very sorry to hear about the loss of your husband. Jeanine

We are cruising in June on the Paul Gauguin! We booked it about a year in advance, so I can't believe how close we are getting!

Jun 21 Wednesday Papeete, Tahiti
Jun 22 Thursday Papeete, Tahiti
Jun 22 Thursday Huahine
Jun 23 Friday Raiatea (our 16th Anniversary :) )
Jun 24 Saturday Rangiroa, Tuamotu Islands
Jun 25 Sunday Rangiroa, Tuamotu Islands
Jun 26 Monday Bora Bora
Jun 27 Tuesday Bora Bora
Jun 28 Wednesday Taha'a Motu Mahana
Jun 29 Thursday Moorea
Jun 30 Friday Moorea
Jun 30 Friday Papeete, Tahiti
Jul 1 Saturday Papeete, Tahiti

Kristin, you will have such a great time! Wonderful way to celebrate an anniversary!

Thanks, Wendy! We suspect it will be our most romantic anniversary yet!

We'll be on Bliss. Looking forward to meeting other LCTs and Ngaire's group.

I am on this one, too! (June 21st, but leaving the 19th 2 days early for a stay a couple nights at the IC Beachcomber...to get in the mood!)

From the sound of it, Kristin, it sounds like we all really need this vacation. Looking forward to meeting you and your husband there!

Yes, Sue, I am really looking forward to this - and to meeting you and your children! Final payment has been made so the countdown can officially start!!!

We are on the PG just prior to Kristin and Sue and will try to leave some fun behind for them to enjoy. I will have my laptop so hope to post pictures and comments as time allows.

Steve

We are on Oceania Nordic Explorers cruise June 26-July 10. Looking forward to a couple of days pre-cruise visiting our son who is studying abroad this summer in London.


Jun 26 London (Dover), United Kingdom
Jun 27 Cruising the Skagerrak
Jun 28 Oslo, Norway
Jun 29 Kristiansand, Norway
Jun 30 Lerwick (Shetland), United Kingdom
Jul 1 Torshavn (Faroe I.), Denmark
Jul 2 Cruising the Atlantic Ocean
Jul 3 Reykjavik, Iceland
Jul 4 Reykjavik, Iceland
Jul 5 Cruising the Atlantic Ocean
Jul 6 Stornoway, (Hebrides) Scotland
Jul 7 Belfast, Ireland
Jul 8 Dublin, Ireland
Jul 9 Cruising the Irish Sea
Jul 10 (Dover), United Kingdom

My husband and I are also on the June 21st sailing of the Paul Gaugin that Susan and Kristin are on! I'm hoping we meet all of you!
Love, Elena :cool:

Awesome, Elena (what a pretty name!!), see you on board! :)

My husband and I will be doing back to back WAVE and BLISS. We depart Monte Carlo on June 9, and arrive in Copenhagen on July 1. We are then flying to Ireland for a three week home exchange. First cruises on Regent. Look forward to meeting all of you.

Cruiserpk/Lee/Vivwhit:

Re Baltics sailing June 19 from Dover (BLISS) Ray & Penny Schuette will be in Cabin 651.

Look forward to meeting you.

Cheers! Ray
Lee: We're considering a trip "down under" in Nov. and would love to pick your brains.

Those of us on WAVE should leave our leftover In Room Bar setups for you on BLISS!

Looking forward to meeting many LCT contributors and the illustrious Ngaire on BLISS. Are we also lucky enough to have the handsome Captain Dag?? We are traveling with 3 other couples from Lake Charles, La. and will be in 655 - the others on 8. This is a first Regent Cruise for our friends - Hopefully it will be "Blissful Sailing". We are all very excited.

Jan & Charles Ware

Jan & Charles:

Do hope our paths cross although I'm sure you're going to be busy with your fellow travelers during a very port intensive cruise.

We lived in Baton Rouge from '83 to '85 and have MANY fond memories of the people and the food.

Cheers! Ray & Penny
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Jimmy & Mary Ann Walker are also on the BLISS cruise this month.