Segment: Thinking Person’s Cruise #1
Episode: Into the Midnight Sun Ep 3
Air Date: 27th October 2019
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

Standing out from other cruise experiences, Viking cruises are designed to enrich your learning opportunities while on-board.

• Viking has won Best Ocean Cruise Line for 4-years in a row, and it’s because of the quality of the experience on-board, the destinations, and how the crew cares for their guests.
• This is a thinking person’s cruise, with each ship having its own resident historian, as well as visiting guest speakers all keen to share their knowledge on the history of the places you visit.
• Caroline Mallory is the resident historian on Into the Midnight Sun, and is one of a team of lecturers who cover politics, history, science – anything related to the cruise.
• Vikings were actually very clean, washing themselves and their clothes regularly. However, the large horned helmet is just the stuff of legend.
• The Heritage Museum has replicas of Viking jewellery and wood carvings – Vikings were phenomenal artists.
• Caroline’s lecture in the 400-seat Star Theatre is exceptionally popular, and has a fascinating subject matter, and is only one of the many different topics shared with guests on-board the cruise.
• The library has been curated by Heywood Hill, a renowned bookstore based in London’s Mayfair, which has been operating since 1936.
• Deck 2 is home to a Viking exhibition that displays artefacts and stories of early Nordic seafaring explorers.