August 2010

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.

Yeah, I get to post here again at last! And technically, I get to come back again next month... Exciting! Debbie

Cruise West / Columbia & Snake Rivers / River Voyage of Discovery aboard Spirit of 98

Departing August 28, 2010 from Portland, OR
8/29 - Columbia River Gorge, Bonneville Dam and Multnomah Falls
8/30 - Pendleton, OR
8/31 - Clarkston, WA, jet boat excursions into Hell's Canyon
9/1 - Walla Walla, WA
9/2 - river cruising, lock through McNary, John Day and The Dalles
9/3 - Astoria, OR (day tour to Mt. St. Helens, we'll drive back later for a day in Astoria)
9/4 - Portland and disembark, transfer to airport to pick up rental car and spend the next week driving down the Oregon Coast to spend a night at Crater Lake Lodge and then back to Portland to fly home.

Hi Debbie,
Looking forward to hearing about your Columbia and Snake River experience.

Have fun!

Good Evening Karen,
Yes, we will be on the Voyager for the following cruise. Rod

Aug 11 Wed Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 12 Thu Helsinki, Finland
Aug 13 Fri St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 14 Sat St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 15 Sun St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 16 Mon Tallinn, Estonia
Aug 17 Tue Riga, Latvia
Aug 18 Wed Visby, Sweden
Aug 19 Thu Gdynia, Poland
Aug 20 Fri Warnemunde (For Berlin), Germany
Aug 21 Sat Copenhagen, Denmark

Thanks Donna. Not too sure about Internet access on this little ship, so we probably won't blog real time, but we may put up some kind of little photojournal or something after we get back. If we do, I'll post a link somewhere here on LCT.
Debbie

Hi Debbie,

Glad to hear you've booked this trip. Look forward to hearing about it compared to my friends' past experiences with the ship and cruiseline.

Kathy,
This is not a paddlewheeler. That is the ship I believe your friend spoke about. The line is Cruise West. I will report back in some way in September.
Debbie

Debbie,
That's what I get for not reading the details!(or being half asleep when I did!) I believe my friend did Alaska on Cruise West and was very pleased. Whatever, have a great time! Oregon's a beautiful place!

Wooho!!!! Finally get to post! DH and I (uh, oh, and my parents - which wasn't part of the original plan...) are sailing on the Mariner:

Aug 26 Thu Athens (Piraeus), Greece
Aug 27 Fri Kusadasi, Turkey
Aug 28 Sat Cruise the Dardanelles, Bosphorus, International Waters
Aug 29 Sun Constanta (Bucharest), Romania
Aug 30 Mon Odessa, Ukraine
Aug 31 Tue Sevastopol, Ukraine
Sep 01 Wed Sochi, Russia
Sep 02 Thu Yalta, Ukraine
Sep 03 Fri At Sea, International Waters
Sep 04 Sat Nessebur, Bulgaria
Sep 05 Sun Istanbul, Turkey

We're going to Athens a day early to stay with a college buddy of mine who lives there now, and staying one day in Instanbul to try to cram that in. After that, I will have 0 vacation days so we have to get back home. :(

Can't wait!!!!!

:)
Liz

What a neat trip - hope you send seamail!!!

It's been a long time I don't post on Roll call!

Aug 07 Sat Rome (Civitavecchia)
Aug 08 Sun Olbia (Sardinia)
Aug 09 Mon Sorrento/Capri
Aug 10 Tue Trapani, Italy
Aug 11 Wed La Goulette, Tunisia
Aug 12 Thu Valletta, Malta
Aug 13 Fri At Sea, International Waters
Aug 14 Sat Santorini, Greece
Aug 15 Sun Katakolon, Greece
Aug 16 Mon Corfu, Greece
Aug 17 Tue Dubrovnik, Croatia
Aug 18 Wed Venice, Italy
Aug 19 Thu Venice, Italy

We'll be 3 days in Rome pre-cruise and 4 days in Venice post cruise. Wonder if that's too much?? ;)

We're on the Voyager Aug 28 from Stockholm to Dover.
Looking forward to my 3rd trip to the Baltic.

Any other LCTers on here?

Aug 28 Sat Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 29 Sun Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 30 Mon Helsinki, Finland
Aug 31 Tue St. Petersburg, Russia
Sep 01 Wed St. Petersburg, Russia
Sep 02 Thu St. Petersburg, Russia
Sep 03 Fri Tallinn, Estonia
Sep 04 Sat Visby, Sweden
Sep 05 Sun Copenhagen, Denmark
Sep 06 Mon Oslo, Norway
Sep 07 Tue At Sea,
Sep 08 Wed Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 09 Thu London (Dover), UK