by The Inside Cabin | Oct 17, 2025 | Lisbon, Gibraltar, Europe, Portugal, Knitting
Two Days of History, Hills, and High Spirits: Lisbon to Gibraltar From castle views and yarn finds in Lisbon to a windswept pass by Gibraltar, these two days at sea delivered culture, color, and crew stories worth sharing. Interactive Cruise Map Itinerary, Menus, When...
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 6, 2017 | 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Europe, Great Britain, Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland, Knitting
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...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 5, 2017 | 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Liverpool, Europe, Great Britain, Knitting
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 2, 2017 | Great Britain, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2017 Celtic Adventure - HAL Zuiderdam, Europe
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...
