Amsterdam – Embarkation City

In June 2023, we sailed on the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the seas to Norway and above the Arctic Circle, round-trip out of Amsterdam.

This was the itinerary:

We flew from Washington DC to Amsterdam leaving at 5:30 PM for an 8 hour flight. With the time difference the sun came up pretty quickly.

The scenery from the plane was beautiful and I could hardly wait for the tour we had planned.

To learn more about it, go to my youTube video:

I’m BACK again!

Whew! 2020 and 2021 definitely created new adventures – but not necessarily the ones we had planned.

But now I am ready to go, go, go!

Bobble-head Shirley (and the real Shirley) are ready for some new Journeys.

For the first year of the shutdown, my biggest adventures were donning my mask and going to the grocery – trying to find items that were out of stock and to working hard to avoid covid cooties!

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