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…
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…
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…
It was with great excitement that we woke up this morning to blue skies and sunshine. We’d said that if there was only one hot and sunny day on this cruise, this day had to be it. 😊 After breakfast at around 8.00am, we wandered around outside on the rear decks outside The View buffet. …
Got up around 8.20 this morning and decided not to go up for breakfast, instead enjoying a cup of coffee and some of the fresh fruit in our cabin. Although tonight was another formal night, the free fizz on offer with breakfast was not enough to tempt me to get up earlier; when you’re travelling…
When the alarm went off at eight o’clock this morning, I awoke to see that Trevor was out on the balcony, where Borealis was already docked in Vigo, Spain. “Guess who we are tied up alongside?” he asked. “Balmoral?” No. “Arcadia?” No. It was none other than Ambition, the Ambassador Cruises ship on which we’d…
Didn’t get up until 8.40 this morning as I was so tired. We hadn’t slept well, not only because of the noise in our cabin but because of the movement. Lying in bed, you would roll first one way and then the other, and we could hear things falling over and/or sliding onto the floor. …
