hey buddy its Bruce here with traveling with Bruce walk with my channel today's
video is called the worst cruise ports you could choose in all of Europe uh you
know it all depends on the time of year and how many folks are out there but
they're there you could be making a mistake first of all you have done all
the homework you picked the ship you want to go on you figured all the
amenities you pick your cabin class you've got all this done you've done
your budgeting you saved your nickels and dimes you know you're gonna be
pampered ship it's perfect in every way I'm gonna love the service all is well
the trick now is picking the ports that you want to go to in Europe to get a
wonderful say Mediterranean cruise in or a Baltic Cruise or or something like
that you know you're gonna be gonna love the food
you're on the balcony cabin or whatever you know your balcony you might be on a
celebrity ship like the edge here maybe next year you're gonna go on the
apex the ship was gonna look just like this one absolutely wonderful you're all
ready to go you've talked your wife into the deal you budgeted everything and
you're an admit you're envisioning absolute wonderful experience you know
you're gonna just relax like these guys and you're gonna come off that cruise
refresh when you get off the ship you're gonna see some fantastic sights and
wonderful places and in effect you're king of your domain you but you got
photos to remember you'll never forget but then you forgot one little thing you
forgot to mention to your other half gee you know we might be in trouble here
if there might be some ports where we're not could enjoy ourselves very much
because well this could be happening right here we could be landing in
Dubrovnik where they shot the game of Thrones
right at the height of tourist season where all the cruise ships come in and
there's 1520 thousand of them every day plus all the folks who bus and drivin
fly-in what a mess beautiful UNESCO site down there that city is designed to
handle five 10,000 people a day and there are thirty to fifty thousand
coming in it's out of control what about Venice beautiful Venice from
the air how can anything be wrong here absolutely fantastic the problem is
cruise ships are just not welcome these days by the venetie
you could have riot police separating you from the crowds not a good thought
some days during the summer there are protesters like you cannot believe
trying to tell the city fathers enough already cut it out with all these cruise
ships we are just being overwhelmed with them here's another one
Barcelona in Spain Barcelona is a beautiful city beautiful people a great
region the problem is everyone's loving Barcelona to death in the summertime
Barcelona is looking at millions of passengers coming in and out of the port
from the cruise lines and then you've got the tens of millions of people a
year coming into Barcelona to enjoy the walkway here to enjoy the Cathedral it
is out of control what about Rome Italy people don't talk
about it but Rome is also being loved to death here's a line of outside the
Coliseum and you're talking 8090 degree temperature humidity how about a nice
little stroll relaxing stroll here in st. Peter's Square go to the museums or
one of the local areas of one of the fountains in little old Rome this is out
of control and you may not really want to be going you're even going for a
fresh drink to your local bar could be an issue here Athens here's another city
they're being loved to death Athens Greece needs the money they need the
tourists they're desperate for the business and they will accommodate
anyone any way they can but I gotta tell you as a cruise ship passenger you may
want to just stay on the ship this is getting out of hand buses everywhere
diesel everywhere a lineups here at the at the Acropolis I mean oh my gosh this
cannot be fun look at the sunburns waiting to be discovered when these
folks get home later Amsterdam we've heard all about it
Amsterdam is trying to curb tourism there are too many people coming to
Amsterdam right now they're adding an 8 euro a day tax to try to dissuade people
from coming here on day visits look at the crowds out of control
same thing in boorish look at this beautiful photo here see anything here
what what don't you see you don't see people here is the same
picture with the people in it the boats and the canals the folks crawling all
over the place tours are out of control and I'll tell
you what the merchants are making money and they're not stopping they want the
business but for you as a as if tourists are you enjoying yourself are you having
a great time being in this group here I don't know my otakus pain is the
latest municipality that is now putting up some squat they are up to four or
five ships a day in this port I used to be that my your gun the surrounding area
was a quaint little hideaway tiny little ports beautiful little towns and
villages what a great place to visit but with fifteen to twenty thousand
passengers are they getting off of cruise ships plus the folks flying in
from all over Europe look at the beaches here out of control I wonder if anyone's
peeing in the water no they wouldn't do that come on you know you might just
want to stay on the ship some of these European ports are overrun they can't
handle the numbers and you gotta wonder maybe that the holiday for me is staying
on the ship itself and enjoying the amenities we'll have to see how this
plays out other cities in Europe may be cutting back the number of tourists they
want to allow in and they might try to tax them out of town join me Monday to
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