We just returned from three back-to-back cruises on the Holland America Rotterdam. The first cruise segment marked our 20th cruise on the Holland America cruise line.
The only ports that were a repeat for us on this cruise was the home port of Amsterdam and the Carnival Corporation private Bahamian island known as Half Moon Cay.
The first cruise was a seven-day, Norway-only, one. We have been to Norway before but not to any of these ports.
Then, once we got back to Amsterdam, we began our 14-day cruise that took us into the Baltics. Once we arrived in Amsterdam for the final time, we began our 15-day cruise through ports in Western Europe and finally crossing the Atlantic to end the adventure in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
In addition to looking forward to the ports, we found out that a couple from the Netherlands, whom we met on our South Pacific cruise, were on the Norway portion of our cruise. It was nice to see them again. We also met a very nice couple from South Georgia, and I hope we can cruise with them again one day.
This trip was very port intensive ending with numerous sea days. For this journal, I am going to write about our days in the ports as individual posts. I am going to combine the sea days to discuss the various activities since many of them were repetitive.
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