Today was our last day on board Scenic Pearl but sadly G was
still not feeling the best, and even I was a little under the weather at this
point, obviously with the same cold.
The shop was originally supposed to have docked in Kehl, the
German town on the Rhine, from where we could easily have done an included tour
of Strasbourg. We had spent five nights
in Strasbourg earlier in the year, but would have been very happy to have
another day of wandering that gorgeous city.
Unfortunately for some reason the captain decided not to travel to Kehl
but instead to dock at a town in France called Schoneau. Buses would still be provided to take us to
Strasbourg for the included tours, but it was now a much longer drive, around
an hour, rather than ten or fifteen minutes.
As neither of us felt like spending that much time squished
on a bus to visit a place we had already seen, we decided to have a lazy day on
board. It was incredibly foggy at first
so we walked straight off of the ship and wandered into the small country village
of Schoneau. After a couple of hours
strolling, we returned to the Pearl to pack ready to disembark the next day.
We sailed that afternoon, had our final dinner on board and
went to bed.
2025-05-23