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Hi all managed the cruise, all the walking, walked 134 steps to the top of a church in Croatia. Our friends do not understand Polymyalgia, on our last day in Venice we decided to do our own thing at my pace.
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track margaret89358
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Hello Margaret, good on you managing your Cruise and walking 134 steps.
We love cruising and we are off next March for another Cruise circumnavigating Australia.
I am in remission from PMR for the time being, only a few niggles, down to 4mg Predn. hoping I can hold this amount of 4mg's. Last Cruise we went on, I had a lot of difficulty in walking, not this time I hope.
take care, Track
tavidu margaret89358
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Hi Margaret
Wonderful news that you managed the cruise and hope you enjoyed it even though the pace was a bit too much for you. Some people just don't realise what PMR is like and how it affects the sufferer but you did well to do the 134 steps up to the church. We were in Glastonbury a few weeks ago and I actually made it up to the top of Glastonbury Tor (eventually). Anyway all the very best and like me I hope the thin skinning and bruising soon stops.
EileenH margaret89358
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margaret89358 EileenH
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EileenH margaret89358
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Was so much better years ago with fewer tourists - can't see anything for Orientals taking selfies on every bridge!
linda17563 EileenH
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linda17563 EileenH
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We went 38 years ago!.......went in a gondola..... Well, wouldn't be able to get in and out of it now.....will keep the memories then of how is was.. ...18 years ago flew for the day to Florence.....no baggage, wonderful......wouldn' t happen now.....
Favourite, still lake Garda.....that was for my 50th......16 years ago......wonder if that's changed much......
EileenH linda17563
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Have only looked at gondolas! Lake Garda hasn't changed in some ways in the time I've been going there, 34 years that must be. The campsites are bigger and posher and the roads are busier. If you go at the right time it isn't horrendously busy - if you go somewhere on the wrong day in summer it's disgusting! We nipped down for the day a couple of weeks ago as I was about to run out of olive oil - over 20C and hazy sun and very few people. Glorious!
linda17563 EileenH
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Just nipped down for olive oil!.....how jealous am I.......suppose you will just nip up the Dolimites next!.....
We have to nip to a shop beginning with S!!
Seriously though, don't think I could hack airports now........and a cruise is not our thing.....
(Except maybe Norwegian fjords)
EileenH linda17563
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The Dolomites are the other side of the road - we live on the valley that separates the Alps to the north and Dolomites to the south ;-)
No, cruises aren't my thing either. We did Vancouver and up the Inside Passage and the scenery and trips were great - but the fluff on the ship was boring in the extreme. Nothing but shopping on board, the shore stops were wall to wall shopping and otherwise it was food, food, food! I fancy the Norwegian fjords too though...
Anhaga EileenH
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The two cruises I've taken, not counting the Nile, were good because there was fun entertainment on board (things I actually liked) plus information talks, generally on a day at sea. The rest of the time we spent on excursions, this is pre-PMR of course). The ships had casinos on board, of no interest to us, and the shopping was very limited. Small ships, something like 600 passengers.
The three days on the Nile were, of course, wonderful, just watching the scenery drift by, with stops at the requisite temples. Can't say the Inside Passage has ever appealed to me, but we were lucky enough to cross the Rockies by car just as the Yellowhead Pass was completed and that was stunning.
EileenH Anhaga
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It was great - crowned by the early morning waching the glacier calving 2 or 3 sizeable icebergs. We couldn't do the trips I WOULD have enjoyed - partly because we couldn't have physically and mainly because of the eye-watering cost. The guy doing the informational talks was SOOOOOOOOOO irritating I couldn't face more than a couple (too BOUNCY and ...). But as it happened we ended up at a brilliant shared table for dinner in a superb restaurant and had a luxury cabin so it was a pleasant week in that sense.
As I say, I'd do the fjords, possibly the Baltic - and the Nile if it weren't in Egypt in 2017. But I think I prefer being less restricted than on a boat of any sort. People go on about canal boats and the drifting by the scenery for example - my experience was you couldn't really SEE a lot and I didn't like not being able to just stop and look. But each to his own
margaret89358 Anhaga
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Anhaga EileenH
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I thought I'd be bored during the three days on the NIle, but far from it. I began to understand why ancient Egyptian art is the way it is, the banks were ever changing, and you'd see people fishing from little boats with nets, etc. Except for the minarets, and the occasional call to prayer coming across the water, you could have been drifting along the river two thousand years ago. So glad we did it when we did, I would love to go back, but ....
EileenH Anhaga
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