Group Tour At Amalienborg Palace, Germany

We visited the Amalienborg Palace in Germany, one of the excursions we booked on our cruise.  The coach is big enough for the 18 of us and at the end of each trip, the leader would present two red packets, one for the driver and one for the tour guide.  The red packets always bring delightful smiles to the tour guides and drivers.  LOL... yu 

Well, as for the palaces, you see one, you see all... hahaha... perhaps only for us.  We are not historians nor a passionate one.  Anyway, if it is part of the excursion, so we have to go along with it.  As Asians, we are more interested in Food and Shopping, don't you agree?  LOL.. Oh, of course, taking lots and lots of memories in our photographing.... 

Back on the cruise, I relaxed at the balcony.... 

... till it was time to go for our fine dining at 7.20pm.... 

Day Excursion To Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN...

The second day or was it the third day, (I forgot) we followed the private tour excursion to Copenhagen.  From the port, the bus waited for the 18 of us and the first place we stopped by was the Little Mermaid statue by the waterside.  Used to see this image in movies and in books, this time it was for real... Anyway, we just stopped for 15 minutes to mark our presence by taking turns to take the famous icon and then continued on our journey to the next destination.

Took one with her but it did not turn out well....

The other tourists did though.... 

They climbed down to the rocks...

I skipped that....

Next destination ...

Gefion Fountain... 

And with a few of the "gang".... 

Docking Princess Cruise At Southampton

AS MUCH AS WE WANTED TO GO SIGHTSEEING, we cannot deny that we were looking forward to the day tour to end.  Our physical strength has almost reached the limit, more than 24 hours has passed without getting a proper bed to lie upon.  LOL... Flight to London took almost 24 hours, stopping half way at Dubai for a few hours transit, than straightaway from Heathrow to Salisbury, Bath and finally reached Southampton to stay for a night.  We did not go out for dinner, thanks to my sibling who brought along 6 cups of maggi mee, we truly ended up enjoying our dinner in the comfort of our rooms.

We woke up the next day feeling very refreshed...

This is the hotel to recommend for future cruises docked at Southampton...

Just have to take a short 5 minutes drive where we embarked the ship...

Breakfast is included in this hotel... 

I had a hefty meal.... 

From that day onwards... continental all the way!

Behind us is the Emerald Princess which was our homestay for 2 weeks!