First, our Christmas-like European river cruise on Viking was fine. The problem was me, for I had difficulty sleeping. U.S. News and World Report named Viking in their 2025 Best Cruise Line rankings as #1 for the fourth consecutive year in: Best Luxury Line Best Line for Couples Best Line in the Mediterranean Some other rankings. For families #1 Disney #2 Royal Caribbean #3 Norwegian For money #1 Celebrity #2 Virgin #3 MSC A week ago today for us was near agony, as we left our Zurich hotel in the morning, caught a Swiss Air flight to San Francisco, and, after a long bureaucratic hassle (if our SFO-HNL flight had not been delayed, we would have missed that flight), we flew United Air, where the seats in business class were like budget tourist class. From our hotel in Zurich, took us 27 hours to get to 15 Craigside. While I gained 5 pounds on the trip, a couple of days ago I weighed myself and found that I was already back to normal. M...
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