Garry and I have decided to head South for Winter. You may recall that we'd planned a Christmas excursion to Iceland. However, as we researched sight-seeing options, we discovered many sights would be closed during this period. As a result, we're abandoning plans for snow and ice in favour of sun and sand. We're now off to Dubai for eight days. There will still be time for a little snow as we plan to visit Ski Dubai, the world's largest indoor ski slope. Perhaps we'll have a white Christmas after all.
We were able to secure cheap tickets to Iceland for five days over Easter 2008 so all is not lost. We have also had to abandon plans to visit Greece. It's not possible to visit Athens and Dubai on our current RTW ticket. Instead we're now heading off to Helsinki for a long weekend in early May. At first I thought this might be a disappointment, but last night, I discovered we can take a day trip by ferry to Tallinn, capital of Estonia. This sounds interesting.
Greece isn't entirely off the agenda. We've found a series of fantastic cruises through the Greek Islands in late-May. Debate is now raging at Swiss Cottage as to whether we can justify a week's vacation. Every thing is so close in Europe that cheap deals become awfully tempting.
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Dubai will be a good alternative. From all accounts it is a great place. Our friends The Kelly's grandchildren had their photo snapped at Ski Dubai and made it into the New York Times. Iceland does sound a bit nippy.
Thanks for sharing the photos of the Kelly's in Dubai. Hopefully we'll be able to show you our own in two months time. It's really started to cool down in the evenings now. Yesterday we swapped our summer duvet on the bed for a winter one. At least the weather is good. We have clear blue skies this morning.
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