We were up at 7.30am, all packed up and ready to be on the move again. After breakfasting in the large, airy dining room, we made our way to the hotel foyer to await the arrival of Yanni and the coach. Outside, our bags were loaded into the coach as we noticed the day was…
We were up at 7.30am and washed, dressed and down in the large restaurant in good time for our buffet breakfast. The Newmarket group were assigned the same tables as last night, and we enjoyed a substantial buffet breakfast of Greek yoghurt with granola and fruit, as well as croissants, grapefruit juice and good hot…
We were up early again this morning and we packed up the remainder of our things and secured our suitcases before heading to the rooftop restaurant once again for breakfast. We had another fascinating itinerary planned for today and we were looking forward to exploring some more of Greece’s famous sights (and sites!) 🙂 The…
We were awake shortly before the alarm, and we lay in bed listening to the sound of the traffic outside our window. Despite the early hour there was the constant cacophony of engine sounds and blaring horns as the many vehicles sped through Greece’s capital. We got up and got washed and dressed and ready…
A mere 20 days after our superb cruise in Iceland, we found ourselves rising at 5.30am to get showered, shampooed and into clean clothes, ready to leave the house at seven o’clock for the 30 minute drive to Newcastle Airport. Yes! Once again we are setting off on holiday; a week spent on a land-based…
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…
