by The Inside Cabin | Aug 5, 2017 | Knitting, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Liverpool, Europe, Great Britain
Liverpool, best known in the USA (and probably throughout the world) as the home of the Beatles, is not usually thought of as a tourist destination. The cloudy skies and intermittent rain we experienced so far this cruise were not in the forecast for our visit to...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 4, 2017 | Knitting, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Europe, Ireland, Dublin
Aug 3 Dublin Today is going to be a nice day with only a few puffy clouds surrounded by blue skies. This was a pleasant change to the overcast and gray clouds we have experienced earlier in the week. We will be in Dublin overnight with a scheduled departure at 6 pm...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 2, 2017 | Europe, Great Britain, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
August 2, Belfast, Northern Ireland The weather forecast for every day of this cruise shows that there is a chance of rain and sure enough we were greeted with a light drizzle as we moored at Belfast’s Stormont Wharf. It wasn’t bad enough to require an umbrella, a...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 1, 2017 | Europe, Great Britain, Portree, Scotland, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
August 1, Portree, Isle of Skyee, Scotland Our first port of this cruise was Portree, Scotland, where we anchored in the harbor and used the tender boats to get ashore. Since this was our first port in the UK, they required a face to face passport check which would...
by The Inside Cabin | Jul 31, 2017 | Sea Day, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
Our first full day of the cruise was a sea day, which is always a nice way to get rested after travel while orienting yourself to the ship. We always get room service breakfast and were a little concerned about the different look to the breakfast hang tag. A copy of...
by The Inside Cabin | Jul 30, 2017 | Europe, Denmark, Copenhagen, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam
The early morning rain stopped around 10 AM and although more rain was in the forecast, it never materialized which made our transfer to the Zuiderdam a little easier. We checked out our hotel around 11:30 and asked the Hotel front desk to call us a taxi – which...
