{"id":1862,"date":"2005-08-05T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2025-03-10T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T00:52:52","slug":"cs-on-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2005\/08\/05\/cs-on-the-high-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cs on the High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/ellsinore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4274 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/ellsinore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2375\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00205-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>August 5, 2005<\/p>\n<p>On the seas&#8211;first C was for castles. We rented a car and driver in Copenhagen and went where Carolyn wanted&#8211;to the castle at Elsinore, setting for Hamlet, a wonderfully dismal setting for a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00213-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4140 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00213-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>wonderfully dismal play; thence to two other castles. Copenhagen is full of castles and we saw lots of them.\u00a0 Carolyn (left) is hiding the Little Princess,\u00a0 another of Denmark&#8217;s landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>Then we joined the cruise, another C, where we lowered the average age by 20 years (key question&#8211;what did you do before you retired?).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/P1010047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7731 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/P1010047-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The next C was cod, on an island which is the biggest supplier of cod for the McD chain!\u00a0 An\u00a0 extra plus was a medieval round church (which was also a castle&#8211;protection for the local folks).<\/p>\n<p>Today we were in Gdansk, which was 70 percent destroyed during World War 2, but has been restored (under the communists). Delightful city, with castles and churches. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00246-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4150 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2005\/08\/IMG00246-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>Highlight was seeing Lech Walesa museum and meeting him in person. He said he hopes he is the last revolutionary (led Solidarity, which unraveled the Iron Curtain), because then no one would have to tear down his statues. Neat day.<\/p>\n<p>May have better access tomorrow. We&#8217;ll be on land at a hotel in Vilnius. Been doing yoga on deck&#8211;it&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 5, 2005 On the seas&#8211;first C was for castles. We rented a car and driver in Copenhagen and went where Carolyn wanted&#8211;to the castle at Elsinore, setting for Hamlet, a wonderfully dismal setting for a wonderfully dismal play; thence to two other castles. Copenhagen is full of castles and we saw lots of them.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2005\/08\/05\/cs-on-the-high-seas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cs on the High Seas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-baltic-countries-our-first-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8787,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/8787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}