Cruise: Northern Europe
Travel to 12 ports of call in the rich and beautiful north, a part of Europe that travelers often overlook.  Your itinerary includes Norway's Bergen, where quaint, colorful buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries line narrow streets; festive Copenhagen, where famed Tivoli Gardens amusement park is a living fairy tale; Polands Gdansk, where daring workers' strikes helped bring down Communism; sophisticated Helsinki, one of the first planned municipalities in Europe; cosmopolitan Oslo, where most candid and controversial sculptures depict human life cycle-outdoors; Iceland's Reykjavik, where Viking settlers established the world's first parliament in 930; Germany's Rostock, which still conveys a charmingly medieval personality; imperial St. Petersburg, where complex history mixes high culture and cutthroat politics; Norway's Stavanger, an oil center with an old town of cobblestone walkways and whitewashed buildings; breathtaking Stockholm, whose green spaces and waterways account for sixty percwent of the city's size; Estonia's Tallinn, where strategic location on the Baltic Sea has enticed many invaders; and charming Trondheim, Norway's first capital.  Enjoy a fresh and enchanting approach to Europe.  Extra Feature: Top 10 Attractions - You can inspect a 1,000 year-old Viking ship in Oslo.  Watch czarist leaders and their families return to life in St. Petersburg.  And go swimming outdoors in Iceland - in Reykjavik's geothermally-heated Blue Lagoon.  This program puts those things and others on your "must-do" list.