In January 2021, in the midst of the Pandemic with everything around us locked down, we got a hankering to travel. Who wouldn't.
We've been fans of Viking Ocean and River Cruise Line since we took our first River Cruise down the Danube at Christmas time 2011. We have since taken 2 Ocean Cruises (the Baltic in 2016 and Bergen, Norway to Barcelona, Spain in 2018) and 1 River Cruise (Moscow to St. Petersburg in 2019).
We started looking around for an adventure and stumbled into a World Cruise. So we contacted our travel agent and got the process started. We paid our deposit and started following the Roll Call on Cruise Critic. The next big hurdle will be when we have to pay the rest of the money in May of 2022.
We chose to start our trip in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The Adventure will commence in late December 2022 when we will fly to Ft. Lauderdale. We hope to do a little exploring around there before we are allowed on the ship on December 22, 2022. The ship we will be sailing on is the Viking Neptune which is currently under construction.
Although there is a published itinerary, we know many things can/will change. 138 days, 28 countries. We head south from Florida, through the Panama Canal, up the west coast of Central America, Mexico, and California. Then on to Hawaii, south to Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, on westward and through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, past Gibraltar and up the west coast of Europe, finishing in London (Greenwich),
But wait, there's more!
We've added another two weeks to our journey by sailing around the British Isles, adding four more countries to the list (Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Norway).
So stay tuned. We'll update this infrequently until December of 2022.
