In September 2019 we booked a 2020 river cruise in Russia. It didn’t happen. But I let Viking Cruise Line keep my money, to which they added 25% credit. For obvious reasons, we passed on duplicating what we had booked. So tomorrow we begin a combo cruise of Ocean and River, sailing from Bergen, Norway to Basil, Switzerland. (To say Basil is a little deceitful. We’ll leave the ship at about 4AM and go straight to the airport. So Switzerland won’t be added to the countries I’ve visited.)

After four stops in Norway and one in Denmark we’ll arrive in Amsterdam and transfer to a riverboat. We then stop once each in the Netherlands and France, and four times in Germany. It should be fun. Of course, it begins with a two-layover journey by air, which is becoming less tolerable every year. Fun postponed.