Got up at eight o’clock after a reasonable night’s sleep. Went out on the balcony and stared at the miles of rolling, deep blue ocean. Was it my imagination or had the Atlantic swell subsided a bit? It was certainly easier to move around the cabin; either that, or we were becoming more used to…
Got up at 8.00am and went out onto the balcony. The temperature was not too cold but there was still a brisk Force 5 wind blowing, and when I leant over the balcony and looked towards the bow, I could see the horizon rising and falling in that hypnotic way. Waves were still not cresting,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
