Viking Star

... canal and bridge after bridge of sight seeing eye candy- the architecture looks very German, Russian, Scandinavian, and all things Viking. Mostly Lutheran, although only 2% of Danes attend church on a regular basis-every last name ends in ...

... red hot chilli peppers. After that everyone let loose. It was so awesome. I spent most of my night talking to Inga, Viking, Hannah, and Lars from Sweden. There were also girls from Norway there. (Natalie and i forgot the other girls). Apparently there ...

... busiest places at one of the busiest times ever... what a stroke of luck! I can't say that I would recommend the place, The Viking, to anyone though. The service was brutal and the rooms had bed bugs. But who was complaining :) "Koh Samui, The ...

... , and suggested that they expected 10 RMB for taking a bag and 20 RMB if you needed help walking down the stairs too. Viking had made arrangements to have our checked bags delivered from the airport to our cabins aboard the Viking Emerald. Once we ...

... the Viking Century Sun who is being decommissioned at the end of October to be replaced by a bigger, newer, more luxurious ship, the star of the Viking fleet in China. Out van awaited at the end of the gangway and we loaded up and in and started our quick ...

... keep our guests company while they unpack for what was to be our home for the next 5 days.  The Viking Century Sun is a 5 star floating hotel.  A smaller version of her ocean going sister ships, this river cruiser was beautifully appointed and ...

... . We took a boat with a guide and a driver to the highlights: Maya Bay (location of "The Beach"), Loh Saman, and saw Viking Cave. The snorkelling was okay; visibility is low as it is the rainy season, and everywhere we stopped there were huge tour boats ...

... museum has artifacts from 1200bc to current day with man made objects from stone, wood, and metal as time progressed. The Viking section was particularly interesting with intricate artifacts made from gold and wood. The massive Viking boats that have been ...

... , and topped with pink icing and lollies....ummmm yum!!! It is tradition also to cut the head off for the first cut. True Viking style I say! I waited patiently for my first piece.YES! she decide to serve round my side of the table first, yay!! After ...

... ".  We had heard of that particular museum so we checked it out.  The museum housed three, 10th century Viking ships that had been discovered in burial mounds around Oslo.  Turns out, the Vikings of yor used to bury prominent dead ...

... were some Australian girls from Sydney who pleaded me into showing them around Phi Phi for an evening as they had just arrived at Viking and assumed I was working there and knew my way around. I was in two minds because given I felt no attraction towards ...

... like a cathedral) was great, and mum had told me about Jorvik, a viking centre where you can take a ride underground through an old viking town. York was at one point a viking settlement, which I didn't know, and it was pretty cool to ride on this ...

... giant lake that sits on the edge of the town (giant as in you can’t see the other side!) that also holds a viking museum.    I arrived fairly late so went straight to the cathedral and then straight down to the lake.  Here I wandered ...

... 12 dollars a day. We ate at the dead fish and then headed for a backpackers guesthouse off the main road down a dirt road alley. Viking, Nicole, David and I spilt a room for two nights. Then we hopped in the tuk tuk and headed out to see the sunset on top ...

... ride north of Chiclayo is the amazing archeological site of Tucume. The excavations were once led by my before-mentioned fellow viking, Thor Heyerdahl. An utterly, utterly amazing sight. The following day we headed to Lambayeque, a rather curious site for ...

... But some bar owners say they expected more customers. China's visa clampdown appears to have kept out the young, boisterous Norwegian-Viking types. And plenty of foreigners already in Beijing seem to have decided to stay at home and watch the Olympics on ...

... than it looks. I guess with sheepshead and lutefisk, that isn't such a high bar to meet. >>What are the modern viking traditions at Christmas? Hmmm, there's plenty to go over here, but I'll attempt a brief outline: December 23rd Today is the ...

... in. For reasons of time, we restricted ourselves to the Danish prehistory section, encompassing everything up to and including the Viking period. Even though we "cherry-picked" we were not disappointed: the collection had some good pieces, including: a ...

... second thing I want to mention is a bit more humorous.   In several spots in the Hagia Sophia, one can find "Viking graffiti".  Historians believe that these are the runic equivalents of "John was here",  carved during the Viking age. ...

... serious.   “OK…thanks for the suggestions.” Joanna and I laughed over the thought of us in Viking hats looking like outrageous tourists in the city. Determined to get a quick shot glass souvenir for me and something for ...