Tour Managers Tales

Sorry I have not been very good with this tour in keeping you all updated so here is a complete travel log for the tour .....  you can copy and paste any or all of it ....  San Diego – 1.2 million Shaped like a hook and protected by the peninsula of Coronado, the 22 square miles of San Diego Bay form a natural deepwater harbour around which the second largest city in California has grown. The bay was discovered in 1542 by the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Colonization did not follow until 1769. In that year, the founding father of the mission chain, Junipero Serra, arrived into the region as part of a military expedition to secure Alta California, for Spain. Its commanders built a presido and mission near San Diego River, an area known as Old Town. The growth of modern San Diego began in the 1870s, when Alonzo Horton, San Franciscan businessman, began to develop the town’s waterfront areas. He laid down the grid of streets of the Gaslamp Quarter, which along with Hort

Hi everyone, just to let you know that I have changed to a different tour, I am now heading to California on Sunday 11th ... and shall not be going to Toronto and New York. The California tour takes in all the best highlights including San Diego, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Anaheim, for Universal Studios and Disneyland. A busy 2 weeks ahead, and those of you that have on this tour with me in the past know what is ahead. I have nearly got all my "stuff" ready just a few more shirts to iron .... any offers of help !!! no there never is .... LOL. Have a good weekend, speak to in a few days from San Diego. Oh PS, just looked at the weather, only 26 degrees there ...... and Vegas is still in the mid 30's .....

Hello again, well we are now on the last part of this great voyage as we now head into Bergen, due to arrive there this afternoon at about 14.30. The weather these last few days has been excellent allowing us some excellent views of the fantastic scenery, some of the photos are below. The most northerly port was Kirkenes, it was a dull rainy misty day when we we were there, as well as it being a Sunday everything was closed even the church !!! some adventurers took an excursion to the Russian Border ... back southbound again we stopped in at Hammerfest, I went into the Polar Bear Museum, shows and tells the stories of their way of life as well as having some other "stuffed" animals on show, you can also become a member of the Polar Bear Society. It was the Lofoten Islands that were our next stop, again an excursion was offered, which should have been a major highlight, unfortunately, badly planned out and not such a good guide, he was Spanish !!!! if anyone ever does this tou