Is this ridiculous or a good idea?

If any of you watch YouTube look up 'Wandering Thomas'. He does walks around Holland, no commentary, no music just lovely walks all through towns and countryside in rain and sunshine. I love them.

Well some people have posted about their experiences of cruises and that is interesting. So, if people choose to keep posting here, then fine.

As I explained to you once before SD when you were Elderly Person the “highlighting” of a thread is simply a case of what’s at the top of the list of Active conversations and can include spam threads and even deleted threads.
I repeat, a thread asking if it is a good idea to have a thread “following” a virtual river cruise seems a bit pointless not to say redundant when that thread is already under way.

This thread got a mention in Gransnet daily today, so it may get more views and more posts yet.

Is this thread not redundant now that SD has started his virtual river cruise?

Treetops05

Not for me - not being able to go on a holiday is horrid, and pretending I was would make it even more miserable.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that.

Not for me - not being able to go on a holiday is horrid, and pretending I was would make it even more miserable.

oodles I went on a Mediterranean Island cruise several years ago. The featureless time at sea was mostly overnight when there was dinner and entertainment on the itinerary. We docked at the various islands in the mornings. We left promptly at 6pm in the evenings to travel on to the next port of call.

Secondwind

May I tag along as an observer, please?

Yes, you are welcome.

The cruise ship is currently moored at the Quai Claude Bernard in Lyon, France.

And you can go back in time to Friday to join the cruise and then get to where we are now.

The cruise ship is due to begin travelling southward tomorrow morning to make the journey of about twenty miles to Vienne, where the cruise ship is due to be moored overnight.

Please click here to join the cruise

sounds fun. I fancy a river cruise more than a lot of time in the open sea

May I tag along as an observer, please?

Why not a virtual cruise we have virtual everything else from sport to food even people. I quite like James Martin's food, cocktails could be that chap on Alan Titchmarsh's Sunday morning programme. Do we need Susan Calman to go around asking us who we are and all about ourselves?

On my cruise it's advisable to pack your own picnic and stout walking boots! ? Also, the Northumbrian dialect can be a bit head scratching if you hail from much further south. My son-in-law had to keep asking us for translation of simple phrases e.g. in the (forgot to mention, serious omission) highly rated Granby Inn, Longframlington "What can I get you?" He found this question totally incomprehensible! ???

Jodieb

My late sister went on a river cruise. I think she would have been in her 70's. She said the passenger's were Very Old. So for that very reason, "I'm out!"

Sorry she found that. We find passengers range from forties to 70+. Often lots of Americans and all friendly and willing to mix.

CraftyGranny

I'd like to come along but I get terribly sea sick

Ah, that has been solved. For those who wish to stay on land there is a bus variant, where you stay in hotels on land and join us for shore excursions if you wish, and, if you wish, for dinner on board each evening when we are moored in a quay.

Jodieb

My late sister went on a river cruise. I think she would have been in her 70's. She said the passenger's were Very Old. So for that very reason, "I'm out!"

Well what to you expect the ages to be on Gransnet?

I'd like to come along but I get terribly sea sick

My late sister went on a river cruise. I think she would have been in her 70's. She said the passenger's were Very Old. So for that very reason, "I'm out!"

I thought at first that you meant virtual river cruises down our own UK rivers and I was wondering how that could be achieved, given that most of our own rivers (other than those that pass through industrial areas as they near the sea) are hardly navigable by anything much larger than a rowing boat! However, in the spirit of the OP, I would recommend a cruise down the River Coquet (pronounced coh-ket) which rises in the Cheviot Hills, winding for sixty four kilometres more or less eastwards through the Northumberland National Park and discharging into the North Sea at Amble. Places to visit: Rothbury, NT Cragside House and Gardens, lunch (or stop over) at The Anglers Arms at Weldon Bridge, call on me for a cuppa in nearby Longframlington! ? Stop for tea at The Running Fox here or further down river at Felton, but book a table in advance because they are hugely popular. Nearing the end of your cruise, stop off in Warkworth, where there is a castle, and thence to the fishing village of Amble by the Sea. There is the most beautiful scenery between stops but nothing much else, so it's very restful between your super human efforts with the oars!

Search River Coquet on Google.

On the Rhine.

www.vikingrivercruises.co.uk/cruise-destinations/europe/rhine-getaway/2022-amsterdam-basel/index.html

Virtual Basel to Amsterdam, might be good. I could find out what we would have seen. Ours turned out to be 10 days isolating in a lovely hotel on the banks of the Rhine watching the cruise ships sail by.

We have been Amsterdam to Basel, fabulous. Very friendly and a more pleasant experience than a sea cruise. Many visits enroute with excellent guides. No compulsion to join anything if you just wanted to relax on deck.
Cannot wait to go on another.

Having been reading up on all of this on websites, I decided to break and get something to eat.
I am in the habit of, when eating, to put the computer into playing YouTube My Mix on full screen, so as to provide entertainment, a continuous stream of music videos I have watched with a few of the same sort added in by YouTube, without needing to concentrate. Adverts come up from time to time. Upon starting My Mix up a few minutes ago, I got an advert for river cruises!

The travel route site

www.rome2rio.com/

is good not only for long distance trips but also for much shorter ones, such as from

13 Rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon, France

which is the location of the printing museum

to

Rue Mercière, 69002 Lyon, France

which is where a lot of printing places were many years ago.

Budapest to Amsterdam is lovely, fond memories. Also Vietnam to Cambodia on the Mekong, eyes out on stalks.