Suggestions on tentative Scandinavia itinerary

@ Jon,

this is just my opinion, but it looks like its just a real small taste of Scandinavia. little tidbits to just say been there.

happy trails.

Overall, I think it looks pretty good, but I have a couple of concerns.

First, I think you are shortchanging Stockholm. Can you add at least one more day there? It's a beautiful city. With even more days, you could take the overnight cruises to Helsinki and/or Tallinn and see more of Scandinavia.

Second, why are you going down to Genoa and they coming back to Copenhagen? Can't you just fly home from Genoa or somewhere close by. It seems like wasted time and money to backtrack like that. If you have to get back to Copenhagen and then Reykjavik, why don't you fly from Oslo down to Genoa and work your way back to Copenhagen?

I also don't understand why you're going down to Genoa if you intention is to see Scandinavia. You may have a good reason, but it's going to take away from your time in Scandinavia.

Yes, "tidbits" to be sure, but hopefully this will be an introductory visit, not the end-all, be-all visit to Scandinavia. The focus of the visit is the west coast of Norway, but we wanted to get a sense of Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen so we can hopefully return. The day 15-28 part of the itinerary is actually on a "repositioning cruise". We wanted a non-stressful way to get from the north to the south and the cruise was just the ticket. No changing hotels, etc. This will allow us to relax before the balance of the land visit and we specifically wanted to get a glimpse of Lisbon and Barcelona. I didn’t mention in the first post, but we’ll spend a few days in the CinqeTerre region then head back north. We're extending the time frame of the total visit by 7-9 days as we will spend some time in the Hamburg-Bremen region visiting with some friends we've made on past visits tracing our German genealogy. This means we'll fly home from Hamburg.

By the way, I'm still interested in the logistics of getting from Oslo to Copenhagen and Copenhagen to Warnemünde

@ jon,

Stess is what you make of it. Travel can be stress full, but what i do and it may not work for you is that i plan my down time everyday after my "to do/sees" i dont run around 24/7/30 on my trip, i plan to do/see thing for only 6 hours or so. By doing this, im able to stay longer at something if i choose, or just chill.

yes, you can get a taste of alot of places, but to me, its sort of a waste of time. I more or less travel the same, but spend 3 or 4 days in a place if it justifies it. Less or more if needed. But i do this to get the city i visit checked (along with the to do/see) off my list that way, when i go back all i need to do is to land/dock/arrive and im off to outside of the city. In my opinion, youre warming more seats than pounding pavement but thats your choice.

happy trails