{"id":1998,"date":"2004-05-27T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=896"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:33:30","slug":"re-trip-update-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/27\/re-trip-update-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Trip update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong>Rainer Brockerhoff (away)<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;m at a public library in Rostock (Germany), on a shore trip. Internet access is free here, unlike at London public libraries, where it costs about 4 GBP\/hour &#8211; four times the usual Internet Caf\u00e9 rate!<\/p>\n<p>So far the cruise has been marvelous. We were upgraded to an external cabin and it&#8217;s very comfortable. The Norwegian Dream&#8217;s amenities and restaurants are excellent, and we&#8217;ve been busy exploring the ship and chatting to people. Due to a problem with the ship&#8217;s motors, the stopover at Tallinn (Estonia) has been canceled and we&#8217;ve received a $100 refund for that, which we&#8217;ll put to good use by getting on a better shore excursion at St. Petersburg later on.<\/p>\n<p>Shore excursions, as usual, are much more expensive than you can get ashore. An extreme example is the bus trip back to London from Dover, which costs $75 when booked at the ship, and only 10 GBP ($18 ) at the coach station! So we plan to do our own excursions, except for St. Petersburg, where visa restrictions apparently make travelling with a tour guide mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll be at sea, Saturday at Stockholm (Sweden) and Sunday at Helsinki (Finland). More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Rainer Brockerhoff (away): I&#8217;m at a public library in Rostock (Germany), on a shore trip. Internet access is free here, unlike at London public libraries, where it costs about 4 GBP\/hour &#8211; four times the usual Internet Caf\u00e9 rate! So far the cruise has been marvelous. We were upgraded to an external cabin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}