{"id":434,"date":"2013-09-12T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-03-08T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:19:58","slug":"scandinavian-tapestry-tour-part-6-heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"“Scandinavian Tapestry” Tour Part 6: Heading Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 23:<\/em>\u00a0 This is our last day on the Wind Surf and it was spent at sea.\u00a0 Early in the morning we will arrive at Edinburgh, Scotland and will disembark from the ship.\u00a0 It was a peaceful, relaxing day with reading, eating, visiting, packing, and reviewing preliminary bill.\u00a0 There was a slight problem with the bill in that all expenses were placed on Ginni’s credit card; I thought that was a good thing but Ginni did not think so <:).\u00a0 But, through Wind Surf’s great computer system, the purser was able to separate us out and expenses were applied to the applicable account.\u00a0 Mid-afternoon the crew modeled latest fashions from the gift shop so I watched and learned the current trends.\u00a0 That evening, we attended a talk on disembarkation given by the Guest Services manager and joined everyone in the lounge for the captain and crew bidding us farewell.\u00a0 We had dinner with Richard and Sharon, the Canadian couple that we had met earlier in the week.\u00a0 After dinner, we went to the Compass Rose for an after dinner drink and listened to CC Maxx Duo performance. \u00a0 Since we had to be up at 4:30 in the morning, we went to the cabin earlier than previous evenings.\u00a0 We placed our luggage outside our door so the crew could pick it up and take it into the terminal at Edinburgh for our pick up once we disembarked from the ship.<\/p>\n

August 24:<\/em>\u00a0 The sound of the alarm seem to come very early!\u00a0 It was approximately 9:30 or 10:30 PM the evening before back home.\u00a0 We did have a couple cups of coffee before the announcement came for those of us heading to the airport should leave the ship.\u00a0 Since the Wind Surf only carries 300 passengers and many of them were staying a few extra days in Scotland, there were only about 20 people leaving with us which made it easy to get our luggage picked up after we went through Scotland’s security.\u00a0 There was a shuttle bus waiting to take all of us to the airport; upon arrival at the airport, I was able to get checked in quickly but it did take some time to go through another security check.\u00a0 My journey took me from Edinburgh to Amsterdam (where I had to go through another security check) to Detroit (where I went through customs, immigration, and another security check) to Cedar Rapids with arrival at 8:30 PM.\u00a0 Luggage arrived with no problem and the airport shuttle service took me home; by this time, I had been up for 24 hours and was starting to feel it.\u00a0 But it was a wonderful trip and am certainly glad I went.\u00a0 Good things about the trip was Wind Surf’s excellent service; the weather, with an exception of a couple days, was good; the Scandinavian people were quite friendly and helpful; the Scandinavian countries were all exceptionally clean with their laws making sure people do not litter.\u00a0 Couple things I would of liked different was the itinerary where I wished we would of had more time in Oslo; I felt Wind Star should of made more of an effort providing guests with information regarding Stockholm and how to get around; one less airport stop both going and coming would of been appreciated but I realize coming out and into Cedar Rapids makes more difficult to arrange.\u00a0 Overall, a great trip and I am looking forward to planning another one next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 23:\u00a0 This is our last day on the Wind Surf and it was spent at sea.\u00a0 Early in the morning we will arrive at Edinburgh, Scotland and will disembark from the ship.\u00a0 It was a peaceful, relaxing day with reading, eating, visiting, packing, and reviewing preliminary bill.\u00a0 There was a slight problem with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jan.hise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}