Our port of call today was Tallinn, capital of Estonia. We had visited here once before, on the Caronia in 2002, so we were looking forward to seeing how it had changed, particularly since Estonia had joined the EU since we were last here. Today we were doing a half-day excursion that would give us…
We were up at 7.30 this morning as we had to be ready to go on an excursion at 8.30am around the island of Saaremaa, off the Estonian mainland. Saaremaa is a new port to us, so we were looking forward to exploring. From the top decks of the Black Watch we couldn’t see much…
Another sunny and warm day when we woke up this morning so we were looking forward to just lazing about the ship and not doing much in particular. 🙂 At 11.00am we attended a fascinating lecture in the Neptune Lounge called “The Life and Works of Carl Fabergé”, who was famous as jeweller to the…
When we woke up this morning the sun was already bright with barely a cloud in the sky, so we just knew it was going to be another lovely day. 🙂 We found ourselves docked in Warnemünde, in the former East Germany and near to Rostock, which we’d visited on a Baltic cruise on…
When we woke up this morning the Black Watch was gliding slowly along the river, just about to dock in Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth largest city situated right on the waterfront. We hadn’t booked any city tours today as the ship was docked literally across the road from the town; we could see a pub called…
When we woke up this morning we’d already lost an hour of the day, as we’d had to put our clocks forward an hour last night in line with European time. The day was already dawning bright and sunny although there was a brisk sea breeze and quite a lot of movement of the Black…
This morning it seemed strange to be getting up and going to work, especially considering we were setting off on another cruise today! We were joining Fred Olsen’s Black Watch later on but we were due to sail from the Tyne at 5.00pm, and as that is only about half an hour’s drive away from…
Well, not a lot to write about today. We woke up back in Southampton, got up and had our breakfast and Trevor went along to the gym to see if he could get a couple of plastic glasses for our wine on the bus later on. 😉 However, when he came back he said there…
A new port of call for us when we woke up this morning – St. Helier in the Channel Island of Jersey, or the Bailiwick of Jersey to give it its correct title. Jersey is the largest of the four main Channel Islands, the others being Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Jersey is most famous for its Jersey…
Waking up this morning to our last full sea day, we were pleased to see that the fair weather we’d experienced yesterday in Cork was still with us. It was a little breezy up on deck but still pleasant enough, if you found a sheltered spot, to sit out in. After breakfast we spent most…
