We are leaving the ship on Friday (5/1) and staying in France to explore the Normandy area. The ship sails on to Dover 5/2 and exchanges 3/4th of the passengers. Then on 5/3 it sails back to France to the same port, where we will rejoin the ship.
This means we are 2 nights off the ship. We likely will not have access to the computer, so will have 48 hours of so without a posting update.
We plan an interesting two days. We are going to visit the small walled village of Mont St Michel on Friday. Then on Saturday we have a 9-hour tour set up for Normandy with a guide recommended by Rick Steves on his TV travel show.
We’ll rejoin the ship on Sunday when it comes back to France. However ¾th of the passengers will be new, and they will be excited about starting a cruise. We’ll be thinking how the atmosphere has changed, and will be starting to pack away our warm-weather clothes and getting ready to close out the cruise.
This plan could turn out to be really great. However, there are some potential problems that could crop up. May 1 is a holiday, and we had a heck of a time getting a rental car. Second, we do not have hotel bookings, so room could be hard to find, or they could be priced exorbitantly due to the holiday. Finally, we originally had arranged our plan by joining another couple on the ship. That couple cancelled out, did not tell us, and the guide is livid that they caused him to pass up other clients. All the other tours we tried on our own and with other passengers turned up without problem, so you have to expect one of these. We have a very uncertain method of how and when we meet the guide. (You have to be willing to take some risks in getting all of your plans set up.)
This could be an adventure.
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