It's the day after we got off the wonderland dream boat, every one of us is resisting civil behaviour, it's just not fair. Decision seem to be the hardest thing for us to deal with - happily today is decision free. Jutta will be here in an hour to show us around her city for the day. The prettiest part of this city are the inner and outer Alster lakes running from the Elbe. Jutta points out they were a mistake with the daming being far too ineffective, f...

Last day of the Disney Cruise is a Sea Day. NJ has arranged a backstage tour of the theatre and a meet up with some of the cast. It's all a big surprise to the kids when she does her big reveal. We go straight to the stage where we get a run through on the trap doors, the dollys, curtains, and trap doors, and sets and trap doors. The boys are most interested in what happens below the stage (me too). This week they'll run 4 different stage productions all...

Up too early for a sea day, we'd booked ourselves into a Character breakfast. We shared a table with a French couple who both work at Disneyland Paris. It was hard to tell if Gab was more awestruck by Minnie or Genevieve, imagine getting to work at Disneyland everyday, and loving it so much that you have Disney holidays too?  After breakfast the kids couldn't dump us for kids club quickly enough, Gab and I enjoyed the morning to ourselves. We met up with...

Oh no, I'm suddenly pining for Germany and regretting not organising a tour in to Berlin. Currywurst, Berliner, we're missing out! WIth no plan for the day we took our cue from the area. Warnemunde is a fishing village founded around 1200 (AD) before being assimilated by it's larger neighbour Rostock. For the past century or two though it has established itself as a sea side resort town for this part of Germany. So resort pace it was for us today. We ...

Last time I purchased the tickets 3 months early and turned up half an hour late. German precision and order meant that was the end of it. This time I tried to buy the tickets the day before, only to find out German organisation requires you to buy tickets at least two days before. The queue was an hour long and that was for a tour starting in 5 hours time!  We avoided the ticket queue and opted to inspect from the outside. That same white granite that gives th...