Cruise: Northern Europe
Travel to 12 ports of call in the rich and beautiful north, a part of Europe that travelers often overlook. Your itinerary includes Norway’s Bergen, where quaint, colorful buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries line narrow streets; festive Copenhagen, where famed Tivoli Gardens amusement park is a living fairy tale; Polands Gdansk, where daring workers’ strikes helped bring down Communism; sophisticated Helsinki, one of the first planned municipalities in Europe; cosmopolitan Oslo, where most candid and controversial sculptures depict human life cycle-outdoors; Iceland’s Reykjavik, where Viking settlers established the world’s first parliament in 930; Germany’s Rostock, which still conveys a charmingly medieval personality; imperial St. Petersburg, where complex history mixes high culture and cutthroat politics; Norway’s Stavanger, an oil center with an old town of cobblestone walkways and whitewashed buildings; breathtaking Stockholm, whose green spaces and waterways account for sixty percwent of the city’s size; Estonia’s Tallinn, where strategic location on the Baltic Sea has enticed many invaders; and charming Trondheim, Norway’s first capital. Enjoy a fresh and enchanting approach to Europe. Extra Feature: Top 10 Attractions – You can inspect a 1,000 year-old Viking ship in Oslo. Watch czarist leaders and their families return to life in St. Petersburg. And go swimming outdoors in Iceland – in Reykjavik’s geothermally-heated Blue Lagoon. This program puts those things and others on your “must-do” list.
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Review by baroque-quest for Cruise: Northern Europe
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The only thing the other reviewer got right is the misleading title. It should have been titled “Northern European Ports” or something similar. The DVD covers Bergen, Copenhagen, Gdansk, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik, Rostock / Berlin, St. Petersburg, Stavanger, Stockholm, Tallinn, and Trondheim. No tips for cruising are given.
The producers are clearly Norwegian because they covered four cities of Norway and only one from other countries. They should have covered the cruise from Stockholm to Helsinki or Stockholm to Turku, with a stop in the Åland Islands, because of the archipelago between Stockholm and Turku.
They covered Rostock, a city of only mild interest, with a side-trip to Berlin. They should have covered Lübeck instead, as it is much prettier.
The other reviewer’s comment about the narrator’s voice is laughable. She has a pleasant voice with good enunciation. She is world’s better than Rick Steves with his annoying lisp.
This is a worthwhile armchair travel video.