Katie
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Sometime way back when in 2023, I spotted an Instagram post by the Skein Sisters yarn store in Sydney (where I've never even walked through the door!) announcing a Rhine River knitting cruise in 2025.
I mentioned this to Mumma Katie (my mother) and she seemed unexcited by the prospect. Her favourite knitters Arne and Carlos weren't featured in this cruise and she was very much into their double-colour knitting during Covid.
At some point, tickets go on sale for the ~150-170 passengers on the cruise. It's so popular, the TA website promoting it went down. Over 1000 people were interested in the cruise, and my submission ended up being one of the lucky ones. I told Mumma Katie we were going on the Rhine cruise and she confessed she'd also tried to book it! Huzzah, Mumma Katie WAS interested in the cruise, even without Arne and Carlos.
Our knitting cruise departs AMS on 4 August and arrives in Basel on 10 Aug, with disembarkation on 11 Aug.
Mumma Katie had done some cruises before, there was one back in her Miss (almost but not-quite) Queensland days in the early 70s and some travel with her partner around 2018 or so. When we booked, I had not yet been on a cruise, well, if you don't count the overnight ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen.
The booking was made back in Sept 2023 and for quite some time was the only arrangement we made. Well, it was about the only arrangement we made until 2025 as I didn't have my act together to get rewards seats last Aug/Sept.
I mentioned this to Mumma Katie (my mother) and she seemed unexcited by the prospect. Her favourite knitters Arne and Carlos weren't featured in this cruise and she was very much into their double-colour knitting during Covid.
At some point, tickets go on sale for the ~150-170 passengers on the cruise. It's so popular, the TA website promoting it went down. Over 1000 people were interested in the cruise, and my submission ended up being one of the lucky ones. I told Mumma Katie we were going on the Rhine cruise and she confessed she'd also tried to book it! Huzzah, Mumma Katie WAS interested in the cruise, even without Arne and Carlos.
Our knitting cruise departs AMS on 4 August and arrives in Basel on 10 Aug, with disembarkation on 11 Aug.
Mumma Katie had done some cruises before, there was one back in her Miss (almost but not-quite) Queensland days in the early 70s and some travel with her partner around 2018 or so. When we booked, I had not yet been on a cruise, well, if you don't count the overnight ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen.
The booking was made back in Sept 2023 and for quite some time was the only arrangement we made. Well, it was about the only arrangement we made until 2025 as I didn't have my act together to get rewards seats last Aug/Sept.
