We also visited the famous (formerly the thing did not fly) cave that is built around the Santa Claus brand. We paid 70 Euros for two adults and two kids.... That is close to 90 bucks....
I am on my way to Turku by train... a beautiful city in the south-west part of Finland. The Pendolino (Italian make) is very smooth and fast and with all the stops, it only takes 2 hours from Helsinki.
The beauty of having an apartment in downtoen Helsinki is to be able to move ariund without a car. This morning I was able to walk to the train station. How cool is that.... In my home town.... Dallas... a car is needed to move anywhere... mainly due to the distances.
Overall, this was a wonderful trip and very nice to spend three days with good friends. Also, this is my first "winter drive" and I have to say that Honda Gold Wing is the king of the bikes in such weather.
North Arkansas is much further in the autumn, so next year we have to do this at least 3 weeks prior to see the full colors of fall. Also, we learnt that April would be a good time to visit Arkansas to see all of the beauty of spring.
We have now driven sixtyfive miles and we are well of on our way to Dallas Texas
This was therefore a four state trip and tomorrow we will continue our trip to west over Talimena State Park and continue our trip to Oklahoma and then finally down to south towards Dallas. Our estimated arrival to Dallas is 03.00 PM.
We have driven 325 miles today, 767 miles together so 140 miles less than yesterday. The road from Hot Springs to Mena was beautiful and we could see the sun setting down in the horizon. Darkness came real quick and now at 5.52 PM it is completely dark and the temperature is around 46 Fahrenheit.
The rooms in the hotel are nice and convinient and will stay here another time as well.
Our crew consists of thee Honda Goldwing users and one Yamaha driver and each bike is well protected of cold wind. Mine even has heated grips which are needed when I get up 5.10 AM to be at Flowermount Starbucks where we have agreed to meet. I expect us to accumulate at least 1200 miles during the three days.
Stay tuned for more...
As always, the wake-up in the morning was cruel.... 4.30 AM. The flight from Helsinki to Zurich is operated by Finnair with seats so small that you can hardly breath. The change to American Airlines flight 37 was very close, in fact most of the passangers had already boarded when I reached the gate. As before, Zurich airport is propably one of the best airports in Europe.... Friendly service and well organized. The flight to Dallas was uneventful.... However, I was surprised how tense the flight attendants were.... Specifically one lady that showed with her face that she really hates her job.... That was unfortunate.... Maybe she had a bad day as we all have every now and then.
I am on my way back to Helsinki so I can catch my flight to Dallas very early in the morning. The layover in Copenhagen is only 2 hours, so I get to Helsinki around 7 in the evening.
I was very surprised how very German Wroclaw looked like and found out later that it had been a German town before the second world war. The center of Wroclaw has lots of shops, restaurants, and very much like any European city. I definetely need to see this again during summer season!
I am on my way back to Helsinki so I can catch my flight to Dallas very early in the morning. The layover in Copenhagen is only 2 hours, so I get to Helsinki around 7 in the evening.
I have to say that Sofitel Wroclaw is one of the best hotels I have stayed in a while. Very new, good service and extremely well located. I stayed two nights in this hotel and no regrets. The only thing to complain is that Orbitz messed up the payment to the hotel and they asked me to repay it... Not my style and my wife fixed it by calling Orbitz.... so everything is OK
The weather in Helsinki has been very cold when you compare it to the regular season. We haver had snow storm, very cold nights.... down to 18 minus Celsius and this is cold!
This afternoon I am on my way to Wroclaw Poland for one day and what makes this interesting is that I have never been in Poland before. There was no direct flight from Helsinki, so I am flying via Copenhagen using Blue 1. This is the only way to get there. The codeshare flight is flown by Cimber air, which I have never heard of.
This time of the year one might not want to visit Finland.... It is rainy, iit is getting darker and overall it is murky and people are getting ready for a long winter. The weather is around 0 celsius during mornings (32 Fahrenheit) so one has to be prepared to wear warm clothes. I am sure I will get my share of autumn during my trip.
On the airport again. Now in the Nashville International airport. Some advice. The airport is not built for business travelers. I had to hunt down an electric wall plug to be able to work.... this place needs renovation badly. The Gaylord Opryland was beautiful and I hope to visit the place in the future as well.
I thought I had seen it all.... but this place really is huge, beautiful and you need to have a map to be able to navigate the place.... I talked with one of the guys here and this place have rooms for 2800 people, which is unreal. The Gaylord Texan is not even close to the size of this one. I have visited now all three Gaylords.... I heard they are building one in Washington and I believe one in San Diego.....
An unexpected trip to Nashville.... Got to love it as I have never visited Nashville.... In fact I have never even been in the state itself. I will be staying at the original gaylord hotel Opryland Gaylord... There are only three of these as far as I know.... One here in Dallas (Grapevine), one in Orlando, Florida and this one that I will be visiting. My visit is only for one night as I have to fly to Finland on Thursday.
If you travel extensively, the only right way to execute your travel plans is to concentrate your travel to one airliner. I fly transatlantic on regular basis and the upgrades from economy to business has worked really well with me. I get to fly more comfortably these long and tiring flights. I already miss my golf, so thursday needs to be a golf afternoon!
Of all European airports, I really like the way the Zurich airport works. It is organized, clean, and the movement from one terminal to the other works. I just arrived from Nice, France and will be flying to Dallas, Texas.
I won't have many days in Dallas as I have to be in Nashville on Tuesday and Wednesday and then to Finland on Thursday via Frankfurt. Fortunately I have the chance to take my family to Dallas Stars hockey game on Monday evening.
It feels like unreal.... It cost me 75 euros to get to Cannes from the Nice airport and 90 Euros to get back.... I feel this is almost stealing!
I stayed at Hotel Splendid in the very heart of Cannes. The hotel was very nice and clean, and the breakfast room had a very nice terass that you could use in the morning. The rooms are not big, no shower curtains when you want to shower.... I guess the hotel assumes you to use the bath.... which I never do. My collague stayed in the beautiful hotel Majestic and it looked like that hotel was a few notches more exclusive.
One of our meetings was in a hotel (Sofitel) that is close to Splendid and this hotel had one of the most beautiful scenaries I have seen.... It was overlooking the beautiful Mediterranian.
I visited Monaco one night for dinner in the very famous Cafe Paris that is the building by the Monte Carlo Casino. Even if I had been in Monaco multiple times, I have never been eating at Cafe Paris and nor have I been inside the casino. Now I have done both and it was really worth it!
If you stay in Cannes and want to visit Monaco, the way to go is to use the train. It is very cheap... Under 20 Euros both ways.... and then a short walking distance from the train station to the Casino and Cafe Paris.
I would highly suggest to check out the spectacular views from the hill down to the Monaco bay... The best way to descibe this is to give follow directions: when exciting the casino, turn immediately to you left and walk around 200 to 300 meters and you can see the beautiful Monaco downtown from a distance. Do this both day and nighttime.
My flight back from Nice to Zurich is very early in the morning and for me to get to the airrport in the morning from Cannes using cab.... the motorway is the only way
I suggested my friends that came to the meeting to visit Antibes and Les Pins with car using the coastal road. Some of them had decided to extend the visit by driving to Italy and also spend a day in Monaco.
i had a few hours im the Swiss lounge and I have to say that what have they been thinking about when servicing laptop users. There were no outlets for electricity and the ones that they had were built in a way that no electric connector would work Unreal....
My participation in the new Board of Directors that I was elected to (IAMCP international board) takes me this time to Cannes France via Zurich, Schwitzerland. I have a connection flight to take to Nice and then a cab to Cannes.
I will be staying until Tuesday morning next week. Cannes is one of the favorite places that I and my wife enjoy.... Howeever, this is the first time I visit so late in the fall.
Stay tuned....
Finally back from my almost one week trip. I accumulated almost 7500 base miles and 15000 overall... So I am getting closer to 2 Million club with American Airlines.
Weather in Dallas is good, according to forecasts, 90 Fahrenheit later today which means that it will be hot when we play our Thursday Golf round in the Grapevine Golf Course. The good news is that I get to stay home for at least 2 weeks! Stay tuned....
I have two European trips in front of me.... One to Cannes France and another one to Finland... two weeks later.... And of course the third one to Finland during Christmas....
My flight from LAX (Los Angeles) to Boston was brutal. The flight from LAX was supposed to leave by 12.15 AM, but did around 1.30 AM. It arrived Dallas around 6.30 AM and I run to the connection that would take me to Chicago and the to Boston. I spent 14 hours on this trip, a direct flight would have lasted probably around 5 hours...I was upgraded to first class on each leg so it made a world of difference.
This is now the econd time in six months that I was in Boston for a conference. This time the conference was located in the Hynes Convention center and I have to say that it works better than the new convention center that is further away from the downtown area. The area around Prudential center has lots of things to offer to participants while the new one is in the middle of nothing...
I do like Boston as a town, lots of nice places, good food and the approximity of the sea. The only huge problem is still the traffic as the "big dig" still has lots of issues.
Boston Logan airport has seen its best days.... and the Admirals Club is not even close to the one that I visited earlier this week (Los Angeles International Airport LAX).
My flight back to Dallas is via Chicago O'Hare, and will be in Dallas around noon time. My wakeup in Boston was 3.00 AM.... sweet....
I used www.hotwire.com first time in my life when staying in Boston. I wanted to be cheap so my client would not have to pay for the ridicolous 400 dollar night what the hotels in downtown Boston are asking for. Guess what... I got what I wanted, a cheap hotel that was cheap in every respect... A Howard Johnson hotel where I could get to my room through a dumpster.... Also, the room was supposed to have wireless connection.... It did but nobody did not tell that outgoing SMTP traffic would not work... So I could read my email, but not send anything.... sweet..... Also, the first night the hotel lost its electricity....
The question is.... Did I learn anything.... The answer is.... Yes I did and that is that I will not use hotwire.com anymore as it will not let you choose the hotel until you pay it... So you are "buying a pig in a bag".
The second lesson is, which I should have learnt by now, is that when you want to be cheap, you will have to deal with crap in one way or the other....
The drive from LAX airport to Fountain Valley was smooth, but it amazes me how much traffic there is on these roads. If I lived here, I would not want to live far from the office.... The weather in Southern California is as always.... Sunny with nice cool breeze....
My hotel, Disneyland Hotel in the heart of Disneyland has seen its glory days.... The public places like gym etc. Has broken equipment, and to me that is not acceptable. If one provides those services, at least an effort should be done to maintain them. I am sure this hotel is good for kids, but I am not sure it is good for business travel... That remains to be seen when the conference starts.
Well, that was 5 days of beeing at home and now I am on my way again. One of the largest software vendors in its own domain has its User Group meeting in Anaheim and I will be staying in the Disney hotel... sweet... My daughter asked whether she fcould come.... using her pressious look..... please daddy.... Unfortunately it is just business...
Tomorrow on Sunday I will play golf as part of the conference.... It will be interseting as I have never played in California before....
As before, American Airlines is taking me to LAX, and I am currently enjoying the refreshments of Admirlas Club...6.30 AM
I prefer flying from Helsinki to Dallas via Zurich mainly due to American Airlines service to me as executive platinum member. The flight from Helsinki to Zurich is operated by Finnair (code share with American Airlines). American flies to Dallas in an older aircraft but when you fly business it is slightly better food etc. Than the newer Boeing 777 that has a real first class.
The last part of my trip I spent in Kotka, my home town. This town is not only part of me, but also the home of my close family. I have to say that visiting my home town makes my so calm and happy.
If you visit Turku from Helsinki, make sure you use the very effective railroad that connects most Finnish cities with each other. Turku is one of the most beautiful summer cities in Finland mainly due to its long history and academia. Sea is also a huge factor that I specifically appreciate. The distance between Helsinki and Turku is about 100 miles so using the new Pendolino traines is very efficient.
I am extremely happy that the breeder of extremely good lion dogs. Our 4th lion dog was delivered to us from western part of Finland and he spent one night with me in our Helsinki residence. The following morning I took him to Finnair cargo to be delivered to Dallas Fort Worth where my wife would pick him up the next day. According to my wife, the flight had gone well without any incidents.
What is interesting is that Lufthansa is the only air carrier that accepts dogs to be transported during the summer. Must be good for their business. Now we have four male dogs in our household..... They are protective, so be aware....
The real reason for my Helsinki trip was to participate in the confirmation of my 15-year old god son Jere. In the ceremony, my task was to be part of the blessing of Jere and I have to say that I am proud of him and what he has become. After the ceremony, we had his relatives and friends to participate in a traditional coffee party with lots of traditional Finnish bakeries.
The business class of Boeing 777 is nice. I am on my way to Helsinki via Frankfurt. Another 17 hours with the layover in Frankfurt. These flights are tiring, burt business class with good American service makes a difference
I have been flying American Airlines as a customer now close to 9 years and the last three years as executive platinum. Let me tell you one thing.... They treat me as thei number one priority and this is also the opinion of my wife who is a former flight attendant for a Danish airline.
There is absolutely no reason what so ever for me to use anybody else than American Airlines. I hope they stay in business as long as I fly!
The cab trip from hotel to airport in early morning went well and smoothly. Same smoothness could be experienced in the security lines so I was far too early at the airport.
Baltimore airport does not have Admirals Club, the American terminal is undergoing construction, so if you are too early, you won't have lot's of services. So I am hanging here for at least 2 hours waiting on my flight....
My hotel, Marriot by the Waterfront was really a nice experience and I would recommend it to anybody. I used their gym, which was well equipped and had everything I needed. The employees did well taking care of the conference participants and SPLC 2006 was well arranged.
The hotel surrounding had all I needed such as Best Buy (I had to buy a mouse), Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Hard Rock Cafe (nothing for me) and many other things. The only sad thing that I did see was quite a few homeless people without destination.
I am on my way to Baltimore, a nice city in Maryland. This time I will participate in a software conference for software product line engineering.
I have been in Baltimore only once during the last 8 years, so it is going to be nice to see how the town has changed.... if at all....
We are on our way to Dallas, and I have to admit that I am happy to get back home. We spent the lsst 30 minutes in a beautiful Admirals Club in on the San Juan airport and my son specifically loved to see planes arrive and take off.
Until next trip, stay tuned...
I decided to post this message as somebody told me recently that the airport here in San Juan is a bad experience.... My experience tells me the contrary.... This morning we arrived to the airport bright and early, and everything worked very well.... better than many other airports I have been exposed to. The aiport has all of the things one needs such as Starbucks, Subway other typical service things one needs....
Hardly ever you get to see so many nationalities to be represented like on a cruise ship.... Our cabin caretaker is from Goa, India.... the waiters seem to be from Thailand and Indonesia... Latvia.... and other lowpaying countries. It is pretty obvious what is going on.... I just hope they make enough so it is not waiste of their time and life. I have not seen a single Scandinavian or Western employee besides the captain and his highest ranking officers...
The ship is made in Italy, not in Finland as most of these Carnival Cruise ships are. I am happy this was the case as the breakdown of the ship caused us to lose one day... Not because of Finns, but due to Italian make... One has to have some pride of heritage...
We discussed last night with my wife about the last day's experiences at the Carnival ship. The management of the crew made us all aware how hard the crew works 24x7, how unappreciative some of that work was and how much they were missing their family...
The next we knew, they were spreading letters to the clients... by saying that it is to the discretion of each one of us to put money in the letter... The cruise line had advertised that each client has to pay each day a specific amount as tip that would be spread around the employees. That's it... No worries about how much to pay..
So, please Carnival cruise.... Stop spreading your own disgust that you have on your labor conditions to you clients. If you feel so bad, pay these hardworking guys more....
The experience of Plaza Las Americas is a plesant one and according to my wife (she knows better), it is better to many other malls in Texas.
We decided to check out the new movie "Miami Vice" with my son in the Caribbean Cinemas at Plaza las Americas. We had to check first that it is not dubbed to spanish as we would not be abnle to understand anything.
Borders was a big one and had a good selection of both business and IT books as these are something that I love to explore.
The ship arrived to San Juan early in the morning on Sunday. The weather in San Juan is rainy, but as it is warm, it really does not matter.
Today, we will head towards the "Mall of Americas", which supposingly has Borders bookstore and that is what I need now. Also, we need to continue exploring the old San Juan town as we did not have a chance to do that as well we wanted before the cruise.
How do we rate this trip.... I would say average from Carnival Cruise perspective, and perfect from family perspective. We have decided to explore other cruise lines as well to see what alternatives one has on these trips.
I am not sure how to feel about all of the hard working guys on these cruise ships.... they are working their tail off.... I have now seen first hand how a company can use its employees when a labor union is not involved. As an example.... the waiters in this ship are working 7 days a week with a lunch break... They are doing it for 6 to 7 months in a row... and what is interesting is that they have to renew their contract after this.... How convinient to Carnival Cruise.... These guys start fresh each time and they can get rid of the guys that they do not want... I think that people in the western world has to realize how well they are taken care of....
Do Carnival pay for the trips back home....? Of course not.... Each employee has to doi it themselves.... So that will eat up a big chunck of the income that these guys have earned...
I kind of feel bad to see this exploatation....
As an active business person, I am not sure whether I am the right person to just sit and take sun while the ship sails. I used to have a nice boat while we lived in Finland, so I was the one navigating and making decisions on the route. I do know that I like the "one-day-in-each-island" concept, so I am sure to return to some of these cruises.
I also used the gym today, it was very nice and I recommend this type of activity to anyone that participates on these cruises.
Tomorrow morning we will return to San Juan and the Sheraton we stayed in the beginning of our trip.
Our stop in the beautiful Caribbean island St Lucia ended up us having to stay in the ship and closeby duty free shops. All of the Carnival Cruise arranged tours were cancelled due to heavy rain. However, Carnival Cruise did nothing to promote all of the outside entreprenours that would have been more than happy to arrange things for clients.
This is in fact my first Caribbean trip and I now know what the deal is. The money that these cruise lines are making is not coming from the cruise fee itself, but the drinking (not included in the cruise fee), all of the arranged tours etc.. So be prepared to double your trip budget so you can enjoy your journey.
The St Lucia port looked very nice and we need to come back to St Lucia at a later date.
There are two airports in St Lucia, the one in south is a larger international airport and a smaller airport in the city where Carnival Cruise stayed for the day.
The last day is spent on a ship with the theme "Fun at Sea Day". This morning we were seated with four other nice people from Dallas, Texas and we exchanged contact information so we can be in touch later on.
Our kids have spent lot's of time in the kids club and they seemed to have enjoyed it very much. My son got to spend one night to 3.30 AM with other kids.... Overall, Carnival Cruise has arranged this side very well....
Stay tuned....
St Lucia brings lots of memories to me. When I was around 12 years old, a girl in my class with relatives from the famous Eriksson family (Mariehamn, Aland) was supposed to move to St Lucia of some reason, but it never happened.... I am not sure why....
We arrived to St Lucia early in the morning (07.00 AM EST) and the weather was cloudy and rainy. We are about to leave for our last arranged tour, this time a 4X4 Adventure that let's us explore the nature from some kind of 4X4 vehicle. Let's see how the trip turns out.
I decided to do som workout yesterday in probably one of the most beautiful gyms from a scenery perspective. The Carnival Destiny cruise liner has its gym in the 10th floor with windows as walls so you can enjoy the scenery while you work out. My scenery was the beautiful Barbados....
The gym even has a Scandinavian style sauna... I was first sceptical anbout it, but it really is a true sauna...
One needs to test out both...
We spent almost 4 hours on a guided trip where we had a chance to swim with sea turtles in natural environment. I have to say that we enjoyed the day very much.
It looks like Barbados is a place we are going to come again as we did not have time to visit the downtown area at all. Next time we will do it.
Now we are on our way to St Lucia, which is on the west side of Barbados... so we are on our way back to San Juan direction.
This has been very enjoyable trip and I have specifically enjoyed the fact that I have been together with my dear family.
It looks like blogger.com did not get my posts as expected... so the readers of the blog might be wondering the order of the posts...
The trip destinations are as follows:
Flight Dallas, Texas - San Juan Puerto Rico
Carnival Cruise trips as follows:
San Juan- St Thomas
St Thomas - Dominica
Dominica - Barbados
Barbados - St Lucia
St Lucia - San Juan
The trip was cut short with one day due to problems with this Italian-made ship.... so instead of 7 days, it will sail for 6 days.
I was surprised how well my GSM phone works in the Carribbean islands. Puerto Rico, St Thomas and today Dominic has full singular access so I have been able to access my email each day, which to me is unreal!
Now we are sitting in a tour bus on hour way to rainforest.... This island is volcanic.
Stay tuned....
Our trip to South Caribbean started from San Juan. American Airlines has a direct flight from Dallas, Texas to San Juan and as always, the travel with AA was a pleasure (as Executive Platinum they treat you well).
We stayed the first night at the Sheraton by the Carnival Cruise terminals, the distance from the hotel to the dock was a short walking distance.
The second night we spent at a golf resort in Embassy Suites, Dorado del Mar. Very nice location, but far too many people for me to enjoy the pool... One could hardly see the water in the pool... not something I care about. It did not disturb my kids... they enjoyed it for a full day!
The cab drive to and from Embassy Suites was 70 US both ways so that is something one has to consider when selecting the hotel.
We spent a nice evening in the old downtown of San Juan, we even found a Starbucks that had been recently opened. Sorry.... Prisoner of habits... My venti soy latte is important....
The ship took off to St Thomas very late in the evening.... 10.00 PM local time. In the morning, 07.00 AM the ship arrived... If you can, I suggest you check out the rising sun each morning and enjoy the arrival to each new port that the cruise line takes you.
Stay tuned...
Our not so good experience with Carnival Cruise continued in the evening by not making to the main evening dinner. We were instructed to go to the buffet with million other guests and this was a real mess.
We survived the evening and will enjoy the beauty of St Thomas today. When we woke up in the morning, we could see this unbelievable view over St Thomas. Time to go ashore.
The ship departerted Dominica at 06.00 PM EST and sailed the whole night to Barbados and arrived to Barbados 08.00 AM.
The dock is far too far from the downtown area, so one has to take a cab or arranged trip to see the town.
Today, we will be participating in an excursion that that takes us to see sea turtles and do some snorkling. That is going to be cool....
I just went to see the gym on the ship today.... Unreal... thet have a real Scandinavian sauna with full-fleged sauna. That is way too cool... maybe I get to test it at least once during the trip...
Yesterday night (Thursday) was a formal night with lots of very nicer looking people with evening dresses on. Fortunately I had my blue Turo dress pants with me, but no tie.... Next time, I need to fix that...
A piece of advice, the first night would have been completely different, if we had made it to the main dinner. It kind of spoiled the night as we had to stand in a 100 mile line to get "not so special food". Since the first night, things have been very good and I have no complaints.
It is very obvious what the cruise line is doing in respect to its employees.... Almost all of them are from South-east Asia so no need to pay anything.... Sad but reality..
I had the pleasure to participate in a arranged excursion to the rain forest that is one of the protected sites of UNESCO. My kids had the chance to swim in a pond that was directly connected to a waterfall.
We also had a chance to experience a song and dance performance by native young adults in the middle of the rain forest.
So the question that comes to my mind after this visit.... The people is very proud of its inheritance, which is obviously a foundation for larger success. Do I believe this old commonwealth country is there yet...? No, with a big no... After the tour, we were thinking of walking around the town of Rose, but this was dissrupted very quickly as we were approached by so many beggars and other people that were in the need of money... The cruise ship arrives here once a week on low season (which we are in now) and four times during the high season.
Did we experience the rain.... yes... It was raining on and off.... and mist everywhere...
All of the houses are built of concrete, not wood, and the explanation of this is the hurricanes that visits the area every now and then...
Would I stay here for a vacation for several days... no... But I loved to visit and see the friendliness of people... It is all about our framework. of consiouness... What we do not know about.... we can not dream or worry of....
Overall, good experience...
Our excursion in St Thomas was very nicely arranged and we saw the beauty of the island from a pre-arranged excursion. I have seen lots of beautiful places, but this ranks to the top by any measurement. We took lots of pictures of which I shall post a few when I get the chance.
From St Thomas, the trip continued to a volcanic island Dominic, which is told to have rain 365 days a year. When we arrived to the island early in the morning, it looked exactly the same as in the latest King Kong film. This island had also the pleasure to host the latest film "Pirates of the Caribbean - 2 with Johnny Depp. This island is very, very far in the west.
Stay tuned of comments from this island.
Our not so good experience with Carnival Cruise continued in the evening by not making to the main evening dinner. We were instructed to go to the buffet with million other guests and this was a real mess.
We survived the evening and will enjoy the beauty of St Thomas today. When we woke up in the morning, we could see this unbelievable view over St Thomas. Time to go ashore.
The departure of the ship was delayed for one day and when we called Carnival Cruise, they calmly told us to arrange a hotel room by ourselves... no help was provided. We did find a hotel 45 minutes away from the harbor and that cost us 400 dollars plus the cab... Sweet...
With high hopes, we got to the dock at 02.00 PM and there was this uncredible amount of people standing in a line... Old, young, large, small people and it took us 3 hours 30 minutes to get to the ship. I am not sure where these people get their organizing skills, but they should really get their act together.
We also heard that they will cancel the trip to Aruba and instead do St Lucia.... which is also kind of dissapointment to say at least. The ship will have its first stop at St Thomas for a day. I hope the rest of the trip goes as planned...
Stay tuned...
I decided to open this blog to keep a record of my travel arounf the world. I am in the fortunate position to do what I love best, which is to be an entreprenur and this takes me to all over the world.
I will include photos and other exciting stuff on this blog so I hope you will enjoy the ride!
Stay tuned....
