{"id":13413,"date":"2012-07-08T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/sampler-sailings-in-baltic-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T05:35:00","slug":"sampler-sailings-in-baltic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/07\/sampler-sailings-in-baltic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sampler&#8217; sailings in Baltic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aLl8qm29JFU\/T_kcQL2Z3GI\/AAAAAAAAWlU\/9T4Oxp6DGVA\/s1600\/Star%2BClipper%2Bcover-759707.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aLl8qm29JFU\/T_kcQL2Z3GI\/AAAAAAAAWlU\/9T4Oxp6DGVA\/s320\/Star%2BClipper%2Bcover-759707.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Romantics, old salts, and those looking for a different nautical experience can book &#8216;sampler&#8217; sailing cruises on the replica clipper ship Star Flyer next year.<\/p>\n<p>Star Flyer will operate two four-night cruises in northern Europe: Amsterdam to Hamburg, and Hamburg to Ostend, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The May 5 off-the-beaten-track sailing from Amsterdam to Hamburg includes a seven-hour visit to the quaint German island of Helgoland, a tranquil car-free oasis known as a haven for seabirds, seals and sea lions and boasting colourful quayside cafes and a warm climate.<\/p>\n<p>The ship will also call at Den Helder and Texel in the northern Holland archipelago which are not often visited by big passenger ships.<\/p>\n<p>In 1795 Texel wrote itself into military history books as the only time a navy  (Dutch) was defeated by an army on horseback (French). Discovering that the navy was frozen in the ice around Texel, the French rode up and demanded surrender. Not a shot was fired.<\/p>\n<p>The second sampler cruise departs Hamburg on August 24 2013 calling at Ijmuiden, a Roman era North Sea port in northern Holland, and also visits Den Helder\/Text.<\/p>\n<p>Prices start at $1359 including port charges and all meals and entertainment on board. <\/p>\n<p>During the 2013 northern hemisphere summer of 2013 all three vessels of the Star Clippers tall ship fleet (the others are Royal Clipper and Star Clipper) will sail in Europe: the flagship Royal Clipper will be in the eastern and western Mediterranean; Star Clipper in the western Mediterranean and Aegean; and Star Flyer in the Baltic and southern Spain.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2013 winter the fleet follows the sun &#8212; Royal Clipper and Star Clipper sail the Caribbean, and Star Flyer explores the lush forested coastlines of Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>For Star Clippers sailing reservations contact your travel agent or Star Clippers on 1300 362 599 or <a href=\"mailto:email%3Astarclippers@creativecruising.com.au\">email:starclippers@creativecruising.com.au<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starclippers.com\/\">www.starclippers.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romantics, old salts, and those looking for a different nautical experience can book &#8216;sampler&#8217; sailing cruises on the replica clipper ship Star Flyer next year. Star Flyer will operate two four-night cruises in northern Europe: Amsterdam to Hamburg, and Hamburg to Ostend, Belgium. The May 5 off-the-beaten-track sailing from Amsterdam to Hamburg includes a seven-hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-13413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-star-clippers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}