by The Inside Cabin | Aug 11, 2017 | Europe, Denmark, Copenhagen, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
Day 12, Copenhagen, Denmark Normally we will stay in our arrival city after a cruise for one night which eliminates rushing around to leave the ship immediately. But in this case we would have to be off the ship with the first wave to catch an 11:45 flight to...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 10, 2017 | Europe, Norway, Kristiansand, Knitting, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
Arriving at 7AM would not be our choice for a port visit arrival time as we prefer to get started later in the day when it is a little warmer and more of the shops are open. But 7AM it was and we would have to make the best of the time we had especially with an all...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 9, 2017 | Sea Day, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
It was nice to have a sea day after the late night in Edinburgh. We enjoy sea days and this cruise was fairly port intensive with only 3 sea days out of 12 total. We started off our day with our usual room service breakfast – which we are modifying every night so we...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 8, 2017 | Knitting, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Europe, Great Britain, Edinburgh, Scotland
We dropped anchor about 10 AM today in Edinburgh’s harbor and the crew readied the ship to start tender operations. The tender ride would take about 20 minutes but since it took 10 minutes to load and 10 minutes to unload, each tender trip would take about 40...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 7, 2017 | Sea Day, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
Our day at sea started with our usual room service breakfast, which we always enjoy and the galley continues to honor our substitutions and modifications to the standard menu. We didn’t care for bacon, so we crossed it off and wrote in we wanted some extra sausage –...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 6, 2017 | Europe, Great Britain, Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland, Knitting, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
August 6th A light drizzle greeted us as we moored in Greenock, Scotland, around 7 am. Joining the line handlers on the quay was a person wearing a giant inflatable Scot costume dancing behind a lone bagpiper playing familiar Scottish music. Observing the local...
