Got up around 8.00am as usual and went out on the balcony. There air was still a bit nippy (it is January after all!) but it was still warmer than it would have been at home. There were no white horses on the endless expanse of Atlantic Ocean, but the hypnotic rising and falling of…
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Atlantic Crossing
The alarm went off at eight o’clock this morning and we lay there for the next 10 minutes, looking at the sideways view through our balcony doors of the sea gliding past, the horizon rising and falling gently. Sitting up in bed and stretching, I smiled in anticipation of the relaxing and delightful sea day…
Boarding the Borealis
Woke up at 8.00am with great excitement, as Trevor pulled up the blinds and we looked out of the window towards the sea. From our vantage point we had a good view of a red funnel that had to belong to a Cunard ship, and sure enough a glimpse at the MarineTraffic app confirmed that…
Take the National Express
Take the National ExpressWhen your life’s in a mess.It will make you smile. ‘National Express’ – The Divine Comedy Got up early this morning with a slightly nervous feeling of excited anticipation, because today we would be travelling to Southampton and staying overnight before joining the wonderful M/S Borealis tomorrow morning! What a great start…
Cruising 2023 – Year in Review
Once again we have had a great year for cruising, with the CoViD-19 restrictions and tests well in the past and cruising just as good as it has ever been. While all our travel plans for 2023 did not quite go as expected, we still had a variety of very different cruises and visited some…
Last Day
So here we were – the last day of the cruise. How the last fortnight had flown. 🙁 Got up at 8.00am and went up to the View self-service to enjoy a tasty full English breakfast. Going out onto the rear decks afterwards, we saw that the Borealis was steaming along at a good old…
Riding the Waves
Got up this morning around 8.30 and went out onto the balcony. The weather was cooler than it had been recently, about 17°C, but at least it wasn’t raining. The sea looked very lively but the ship’s motion wasn’t really all that discernible; it would get much rougher once we were crossing the Bay of…
Looking around Leixões
Got up, as usual, around 8.00am and went out onto the balcony, where we could see that the Borealis was just manoeuvring into her berth in the port of Leixões, Portugal. The only previous time we’d visited this port was on the Black Prince in 2008, so it was good to be back. Leixões, which…
Port and Pastel de Nata
Woke up this morning at 8.00am and went out onto the balcony, expecting to see the Spirit of Discovery next to us. But instead we found ourselves looking onto the bow of the Balmoral! At some point either during the night or in the early hours of this morning, Borealis must have moved to create…
En route to Lisbon
Got up about 8.30 am and went out onto the balcony, where the temperature was still pleasantly warm. While Trevor went up to The View for breakfast, I made do with some fresh fruit and enjoyed a cup of coffee in our cabin. Looking at the Daily Times programme, there wasn’t anything in particular we…