Friday, 14 August 2026 We awoke this morning at 7.30am as usual. Was it really a week since we had joined the Bolette? How the time had flown. We were now down to our last four days, and our last day in Iceland. Because we mainly just spent the last four days at leisure, enjoying…
We were up at 7.30am as usual, and we looked out of the window to see that we were already docked in Isafjorður, a town with a rich seafaring history that we had previously visited in 2006. Although the weather was dry, the tops of the nearby mountains were swathed in low cloud. We ate…
We were up at half past seven this morning and the first thing we did was look out of our window to see what the weather was like. Today, of all days, it had to be fine. It didn’t matter if it rained for the rest of the cruise as long as it didn’t rain…
This morning we were up at 7.30am as usual, watching as the Bolette slowly made her way into Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. We had been to Reykjavik on two previous occasions, in 2006 and 2016, so we weren’t booked to do the usual touristy things like rushing to the Blue Lagoon as we had…
This morning we were due to drop anchor at 8.00am off the island of Heimaey, the largest and only inhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) archipelago, located about five miles off Iceland’s south coast. It was a new port of call for us, so we looked forward to exploring. We had to be up…
TREVOR’S BIRTHDAY We were awake nice and early this morning because of the extra hour in bed. Trevor opened his birthday cards and stood them up on the table, then we went up to The View for our breakfast. We had another pleasant sea day today, so we looked on the programme to see what…
Woke up this morning later than usual, around 8.30am. Looking out of our window, we could see grey clouds and grey ocean, and the movement of the Bolette was much more discernible. We got washed and dressed and headed up to The View self-service buffet for breakfast, but it seemed as if everyone had decided…
Today we woke up feeling a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because we were setting off on another cruise, and trepidation because we were sailing out of Liverpool and had booked to go there by train. In itself, we would normally view the train journey as part of the holiday, but yesterday there had…
