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Month: July 2013

Across the North Sea

Posted on July 21, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We were up early this morning to make the most of our last sea day (in fact, our last night on the Black Watch) before our arrival back in Newcastle tomorrow morning.   🙁 I got showered and sorted before we went up to the Neptune Lounge to listen to a lecture by polar expeditionary /historian…

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Copenhagen and Carlsberg

Posted on July 20, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Friday, 19th July 2013 It was another bright and sunny day when we woke up this morning, with nary a cloud in the sky.  But there were little black clouds forming above our heads as we tried to shake off the depressing fact that our holiday was fast coming to an end.   🙁 We…

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Rule Britannia!

Posted on July 18, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

The first thing we did when we woke up this morning was look out of our portholes to see what the weather was like.  Smaller wavelets indicated to us that the wind had dropped, and the sun was peeping out now and then through the fluffy white clouds.  So it looked as though it was…

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Staying in St. Petersburg

Posted on July 17, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Tuesday, 16th July 2013 This morning we woke up to find ourselves in St. Petersburg, Russia.  We had actually been here before; in 1996 when we stayed here for three days as part of a tour of Russia, and in 2002 when we had an overnight port of call on board the Caronia.  Today was…

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Touring in Tallinn

Posted on July 15, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Our port of call today was Tallinn, capital of Estonia.  We had visited here once before, on the Caronia in 2002, so we were looking forward to seeing how it had changed, particularly since Estonia had joined the EU since we were last here. Today we were doing a half-day excursion that would give us…

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Saaremaa and Singing

Posted on July 14, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We were up at 7.30 this morning as we had to be ready to go on an excursion at 8.30am around the island of Saaremaa, off the Estonian mainland. Saaremaa is a new port to us, so we were looking forward to exploring. From the top decks of the Black Watch we couldn’t see much…

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Cruising the Baltic

Posted on July 13, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Another sunny and warm day when we woke up this morning so we were looking forward to just lazing about the ship and not doing much in particular. 🙂 At 11.00am we attended a fascinating lecture in the Neptune Lounge called “The Life and Works of Carl FabergĂ©â€, who was famous as jeweller to the…

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Wunderbar WarnemĂŒnde!

Posted on July 12, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

When we woke up this morning the sun was already bright with barely a cloud in the sky, so we just knew it was going to be another lovely day.   🙂 We found ourselves docked in WarnemĂŒnde, in the former East Germany and near to Rostock, which we’d visited on a Baltic cruise on…

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All Beer in Aalborg

Posted on July 11, 2013April 13, 2022 by bollingerbabe

When we woke up this morning the Black Watch was gliding slowly along the river, just about to dock in Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth largest city situated right on the waterfront.  We hadn’t booked any city tours today as the ship was docked literally across the road from the town; we could see a pub called…

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Destination Denmark

Posted on July 10, 2013April 11, 2022 by bollingerbabe

When we woke up this morning we’d already lost an hour of the day, as we’d had to put our clocks forward an hour last night in line with European time. The day was already dawning bright and sunny although there was a brisk sea breeze and quite a lot of movement of the Black…

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