Post by doctork on Oct 8, 2013 22:51:47 GMT -5
It came into my Inbox today so I think it is current events. I thought it would be good to have some cruise info in the general thread, though later perhaps a separate discussion in the Members' Forum might be good.
This is a two week (14 day cruise) and it is really expensive, though GK is careful to point out that due to the length, it is not really that expensive, as in "lowest per-day cost" since 2005. Yes, as in $500 per person per day, by the time you add in the cost of a Russia visa ($300) and all the extras. The lowest price per person is $3,300, and that is a small inside cabin, of which there are only 5 or 6 in the whole ship.
I still want to go, but gee, more cash expenditures (deposit) so soon? I've barely recovered from the last cruise.
Anyway, here 'tis:
October 8, 2012
Dear Friends,
I never imagined our old radio show would get into the cruise business, but the Barcelona-Venice trip a couple months ago was such a pleasure, we decided to do one more.
So off we go to the Baltic in August.
We'll sail on the 9th aboard the ms Ryndam from the white cliffs of Dover and head off to visit a string of fabulous northern cities, including Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Århus, taking along all the usual suspects and our naturalists and some excellent lecturers, and we'll have a mob sing on the afterdeck as we pull out of Dover, and late-night dances in the Crow's Nest and 7 a.m. choir practice (optional) and more storytelling and lectures about the Hanseatic League and the Revolution of 1917, and a cavalcade of music in the bars and lounges, as the watery world slips by and we take a two-week leave from our ordinary hectic lives. No texting. No email.
Jenny and I did this trip years ago, and the memory is still vivid (in a good way). The thought of walking around Stockholm in August and eating tre slags sild (that's three kinds of herring) at an outdoor café in Copenhagen and walking through the czar's summer palace outside St. Petersburg and the graceful boulevards of Helsinki — that is what is going to cheer me up through the doldrums of March and the book tour in June and the airports and the hotel lobbies and then July 6, the 40th anniversary of the first Prairie Home show, when I am going to feel 103 years old.
A person can get through a strenuous year if you just have something wonderful to look forward to. And I'm looking forward to August 9th and Dover and the walk up the gangway and seeing familiar faces around the Lido pool.
Yrs,
Garrison Keillor
August 9 depart 4:00p Dover, England, United Kingdom
August 10 At Sea North Sea
August 11 10:00a – 8:00p Copenhagen, Denmark
August 12 6:00a – 10:00p Warnemünde (Berlin), Germany
August 13 At Sea Baltic Sea
August 14 10:00a – 5:00p Talinn, Estonia
August 15 arrive 7:00a Saint Petersburg, Russia
(overnight stay)
August 16 depart 6:00p
August 17 6:00a – 5:00p Helsinki, Finland
August 18 arrive 8:00a Stockholm, Sweden
(overnight stay)
August 19 depart 5:00p
August 20 At Sea Baltic Sea
August 21 8:00a – 2:00p Århus, Denmark
August 22 At Sea North Sea
August 23 arrive 7:00a Dover, England, United Kingdom
This is a two week (14 day cruise) and it is really expensive, though GK is careful to point out that due to the length, it is not really that expensive, as in "lowest per-day cost" since 2005. Yes, as in $500 per person per day, by the time you add in the cost of a Russia visa ($300) and all the extras. The lowest price per person is $3,300, and that is a small inside cabin, of which there are only 5 or 6 in the whole ship.
I still want to go, but gee, more cash expenditures (deposit) so soon? I've barely recovered from the last cruise.
Anyway, here 'tis:
October 8, 2012
Dear Friends,
I never imagined our old radio show would get into the cruise business, but the Barcelona-Venice trip a couple months ago was such a pleasure, we decided to do one more.
So off we go to the Baltic in August.
We'll sail on the 9th aboard the ms Ryndam from the white cliffs of Dover and head off to visit a string of fabulous northern cities, including Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Århus, taking along all the usual suspects and our naturalists and some excellent lecturers, and we'll have a mob sing on the afterdeck as we pull out of Dover, and late-night dances in the Crow's Nest and 7 a.m. choir practice (optional) and more storytelling and lectures about the Hanseatic League and the Revolution of 1917, and a cavalcade of music in the bars and lounges, as the watery world slips by and we take a two-week leave from our ordinary hectic lives. No texting. No email.
Jenny and I did this trip years ago, and the memory is still vivid (in a good way). The thought of walking around Stockholm in August and eating tre slags sild (that's three kinds of herring) at an outdoor café in Copenhagen and walking through the czar's summer palace outside St. Petersburg and the graceful boulevards of Helsinki — that is what is going to cheer me up through the doldrums of March and the book tour in June and the airports and the hotel lobbies and then July 6, the 40th anniversary of the first Prairie Home show, when I am going to feel 103 years old.
A person can get through a strenuous year if you just have something wonderful to look forward to. And I'm looking forward to August 9th and Dover and the walk up the gangway and seeing familiar faces around the Lido pool.
Yrs,
Garrison Keillor
August 9 depart 4:00p Dover, England, United Kingdom
August 10 At Sea North Sea
August 11 10:00a – 8:00p Copenhagen, Denmark
August 12 6:00a – 10:00p Warnemünde (Berlin), Germany
August 13 At Sea Baltic Sea
August 14 10:00a – 5:00p Talinn, Estonia
August 15 arrive 7:00a Saint Petersburg, Russia
(overnight stay)
August 16 depart 6:00p
August 17 6:00a – 5:00p Helsinki, Finland
August 18 arrive 8:00a Stockholm, Sweden
(overnight stay)
August 19 depart 5:00p
August 20 At Sea Baltic Sea
August 21 8:00a – 2:00p Århus, Denmark
August 22 At Sea North Sea
August 23 arrive 7:00a Dover, England, United Kingdom