With autumn getting darker, don't you want something to look forward to? If you can't make any big trips, it's important to find smaller trips, excursions or other small highlights to look forward to. We're planning a little mini-trip.
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A little autumn trip
When we recently wrote travel news, we became curious about the Christmas cruises to Visby with Silja Symphony. It sounded nice! The cruises go on 27 November, as well as 4, 11 and 18 December. We will travel on the first cruise, in collaboration with Tallink Silja, and we are really looking forward to this!
Cruise to Visby with Silja Symphony
On day 1, the cruise starts with departure from Värtahamnen in Stockholm in the afternoon. On day 2 you arrive in Visby at 10 am. You then have the day in town, and at 17:00 in the afternoon/evening the ferry leaves for home again. Day 3 arrives in Stockholm just after lunch.
Cruising in coronavirus times
Our experience so far of cruising in times of corona is that it feels like a relatively good way of travelling, although everyone must of course make decisions based on different conditions.
Tallink Silja describes that they follow the authorities' and Visita's guidelines to reduce the spread of infection. This means, among other things, that the number of passengers is limited, that there are restrictions on how many people can stay in shops at the same time, that there is a distance between the tables, that hand sanitiser is offered, etc.
Do you also want to tick?
Did you also get the urge to cruise? If you want to go on the same cruise as us, please get in touch, and maybe we can get together at some point during the trip! It would be fun!
Visiting Visby
Visiting Visby will be really fun! We have both been very little on Gotland. Peter hiked and camped with the scouts when he was 15 years old, and that was "some" years ago after all. I (Helena) have made a few visits for work purposes, always in the winter months. Now there will be winter visits again, but this time I don't have to spend time in meeting rooms.
It will be interesting and hopefully very nice to experience Visby. According to Tallink Silja, cultural events, local food, market stalls and Christmas shopping await, and that doesn't sound too bad!
Have you planned a small autumn trip, excursion or something else to look forward to in the autumn?
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Ditte says:
How nice! Will surely be a nice trip. We did last summer, during the Almedals week, a similar cruise with the Viking Line's Cinderella to Visby. Very nice. However, it was then not Coronatider.
Have also previously travelled with Birka Stockholm and then Åland- Visby and Bornholm. Nice memory because unfortunately Birka "does not exist" anymore... Yes, she exists but not in traffic.
25 October 2020 - 9:50
Helena says:
Right? Fun that you made a similar cruise, I think I remember that you wrote about it. Yes, it is sad that it is so difficult for the cruise companies in these times and that Birka did not manage it.
25 October 2020 - 17:21
BP says:
Sounds very nice, if only for a break from everyday life:-)
25 October 2020 - 10:05
Helena says:
Yes, right? You may need a little break in everyday life now in the autumn! 🙂
25 October 2020 - 17:22
Ewa says:
Visby (Gotland) is beautiful even in winter. Crowded in contrast to the tourist hordes in the summer. Nice trip.
25 October 2020 - 19:05
Helena says:
That sounds cosy! Thank you so much! 🙂
26 October 2020 - 6:25
Travel Friday/Annika says:
Just came home from my own "retreat trip" from Visby. Loved every second, and easy for me to take the ferry directly from Nynäshamn, Hope you have a good trip.
25 October 2020 - 19:50
Helena says:
Great to hear. it sounds promising! 🙂 Thank you very much!
26 October 2020 - 6:25
TravelAnna says:
Just came home from a workcation in Trosa. It was cosy and nice with a change of environment....
Hope you have a wonderful trip! Visby is so nice.
26 October 2020 - 0:01
Helena says:
Trosa is cosy! And it's nice to have a change of scenery, not all trips have to go so far geographically 😉 Thank you so much!
26 October 2020 - 6:26
Lena - good for the soul says:
How cosy it sounds with such a cruise! We long until we have time to make a break in our work. Soon we are ready 🙂
Hug Lena
26 October 2020 - 9:42
bmlarstravellingblog says:
Cruise and Visby sounds wonderful, but I have the world's respect for the Baltic Sea if there are autumn storms..... (do not like boating at all if it rocks).
We booked a gourmet overnight stay at Smögens Hafsbad with 5 courses and a spa in a couple of weeks. It feels like you have to have something fun to look forward to.
26 October 2020 - 13:16