Flinn Fotos - April 2007
Rhine River Cruise on the Viking Sun

In April 2007, we took a 13 day Rhine River Cruise on Viking River Cruises' Viking Sun. We followed that up with a week in Paris. This page has links to all the photos from the cruise. The Paris photos will be on a different page.

Our flight was to leave Tampa at some unearthly hour of the morning on April 11th so we chose to spend the night of the 10th at the Tampa Airport Marriot! It's actually part of the airport so there would be no transportation needs the next morning.

A wonderful choice! Staying there reduced the stress of making our first flight since early 2000 (long before the 9/11 event and increased security).

We had dinner at the rotating restaurant at the top. Not 'cheap' but not terribly expensive considering it is a hotel restaurant and has a fabulous, always changing view of the surroundings.

Our flight left at 6:00am! We flew from Tampa to Memphis, Memphis to Newark, Newark to Berlin, Berlin to London, and finally, London to Basel!  One might wonder why the circuitous route: The legs to Berlin were on points and it was the only way we could go and fly First Class. The legs from Berlin to Basel, saved us over $1000!  We had the time as we were going in a day early for the cruise. Yes, we did have the stress of changing planes in London's Heathrow!  Would we do it again? Yes!