May 14, 2016: Hamburg (Kiel), Germany After a nice, relaxing (and overdue) day at sea, we arrived into the port of Kiel, on Germany’s north coast. Today is another DIY day with a train trip on Deutche Bahn to Hamburg and visiting the Miniataur Wunderland museum. With an on time 8am arrival to our dock, […]
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Stockholm: The Vasa, Gamla Stan (Old Town), & The Hop On, Hop Off Boat
May 12, 2016: Stockholm, Sweden Today was a DIY Tour day as the Zuiderdam pulled up to Stadgarden 167, our berth for the day, here in Stockholm. We all headed out just after 8:30am and right next to the ship we picked up our hop-on, hop-off boat ticket for the day. Stockholm is made up […]
Helsinki: Public Transit Hopping, Church of the Rock, & Kamppi Chapel of Silence
May 11, 2016: Helsinki, Finland After two full days of touring in St. Petersburg, we wanted to dial it back just a bit for today’s port stop, Helsinki, Finland. As the capital of this country (and a new country for all of us), we investigated the many available options and selected a fun tour with […]
St. Petersburg: Day 2 – Hermitage, Church on Spilled Blood, Yusupov, & St. Isaac’s
May 10, 2016: St. Petersburg, Russia A bit past 7:30am this morning, we exited the ship to begin our second day in St. Petersburg, meeting up with Elena, Vladimir, and the rest of our tour group to kick off a new day of sightseeing. See all 249 pictures from our 2016 Russia Visit in the […]
St. Petersburg: Day 1 — Victory Day & Crossing Off A Bucket List Destination
May 9, 2016: St. Petersburg, Russia There’s nothing like waking up to a beautiful blue sky and light winds as your ship comes alongside the dock for one of your bucket list locations. After many years of planning, budgeting, and one previously cancelled itinerary, we looked out our balcony windows, overlooking the city of St. […]
Tallinn: Thousands of Years of History, Yet Only 25 Years Old
May 8, 2016: Tallinn, Estonia Following a day at sea from our 12 hour blitz of Berlin touring, we arrived in Tallinn, Estonia, the capital city of this former Soviet state. Just shy of its 25th birthday, this relatively young country has one of the oldest and most preserved city centers of all the European […]
Berlin: SPB Tours Brings Us The Wall, Brandenburg Gate, & So Much More
May 6, 2016: Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany The first official port of our 12 day Baltic cruise onboard the Holland America Zuiderdam brought us to visit the northern German port of Warnemunde, a pleasant, if tiny port on the water’s edge in the Baltic Sea. When a port city is officially identified as “Warnemunde (Berlin)”, it […]
Copenhagen: Walking, Bouncing, and Floating Through The Danish Capital
May 5, 2016: Copenhagen, Denmark (Note: While The Next Journey is completely committed to posting only our own, original photography as we document our travels, through a series of unfortunate errors, all of the photos taken in Copenhagen, over 250 of them, were lost and irretrievable. As a result, the banner picture above is still […]