If we were in port in the morning, we are back for lunch, but then sometimes we get to have lunch or a snack and wine or beer tasting around the lunch hour and then get back on board. But lunch on a boat is a buffet with hot foods. A meat , a fish, and the cook usually carved some roast or makes a pasta, There's a small salad bar. Sodas, tea, lemonaid, beer, and wine is also served. In the afternoons, if we've been in town in the morning, there's some sort of lecture or local entertainment to amuse us in the big lounge. If we're in town in the afternoon then the activity takes place in the morning. Its usually pretty good, even if the advertised subject doesn't sound interesting, we go anyway. At the end of the day, its cocktail hour in the lounge and sometime during this hour we get the daily briefing for the next day. One of our three Viking director give this. The written version appears in your stateroom that evening. A tip that we learn along time ago is to take a picture with your ipad or phone. It comes in handy the next day when your in town and cant find the paper copy.
Dinner time. This is a sit down, order from a menu, be served meal. Its open sitting so you can sit with whom ever you like. This is how you get to know a lot of people we switch every night. After dinner there's piano music in the lounge but some nights there's also games or other social activities. You can participate or not. Totally stress free decision making. Also with the daily briefing, a one pager description of your upcoming port is given. Its a nice little summary of the town you will visit and why it's important or what is interesting and noteworthy about it. I relied on it lot when making my posts about the towns we're seeing because honestly they all tend to blurr a bit after a few days.
Your stateroom is cleaned twice a day. Bed is made, towels changed out, bathroom cleaned. At night your bed is turned down, curtains are drawn and a chocolate candy is sitting on your pillow. You are given a card that you use to get into your stateroom as well as getting on and off the boat. They present it to you in a little brown leather case. The cool thing is you can keep it in the case all the time because the electric eye can read through it. So doesn't that sound like fun. Everyone should experience a River cruise sometime in their life.
Arrival home. Thanks Frank for picking us up.
So that about wraps up our summer adventure. Thanks for grabbing that seat we saved you. Till December when we head to Portugal
Your Friends Bob & Leslee
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