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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...