We booked this cruise over a year ago while travelling on a relocation cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to Vancouver through the Panama Canal. It was a long wait but the time allowed us to customize some further land travel on both ends of the cruise.

We started out our journey with a tedious overnight flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt on Aug. 1st. over the Pole covering much of the area that we would eventually duplicate by sea. After a night in the Steigenberger Airport Hotel in Frankfurt we set out with our Eurail Pass and went to Strasbourg in the Alsace region of France. Here we stayed at le Grand Hotel right by the rail station. We then toured north-east by rail to Kassel, Germany where we stayed with long-time friends at their place in Immenhausen. They took some time off work and drove us north to the East Sea where we stayed for a few days at Groemitz right on the sea. We then went together to Copenhagen for a few days and they left us on the dock on Aug. 11th where we boarded the Eurodam.

There were a number of ships in port that day and the city was very busy. We had used the HoHo bus in Copenhagen the day before and renewed our knowledge of this great city. We were staying at a B&B near the airport. Read more