Woke up this morning around half-past seven as usual after an excellent’s night sleep. Tried to get my head around the fact that it was 1st May already. What – already a third of 2025 had passed? Tempus fugit. Time Flies, Say Not SoTime Remains: ‘Tis Man Must Go. The weather was a bit of…
We were awake once again at 7.15 this morning, to a beautiful day with barely a cloud in the sky. We could expect an amazing 23°C today, quite extraordinary considering we were in Scotland and it was still only April! 🙂 After getting washed and dressed, we made our way upstairs to the saloon, and…
Woke up this morning at 7.15am to sunshine sparkling and glinting on the calm waters of the canal. Fantastic. Hurriedly getting washed and dressed, we made our way up to the saloon deck for a pre-breakfast coffee, saying “good morning” to our fellow passengers as we did so. Breakfast was at eight o’clock, so we…
What a wonderful day we had today! So much to see and do. When we got up this morning it was still drizzling with low cloud, but we had confidently been advised by Skipper Iain that it would fair up this afternoon, and we could expect sunshine for the rest of the cruise. Hooray! 🙂…
Woke up at 7.30 this morning to the inevitable sound of raindrops pattering against our porthole. Great. To add insult to injury, a quick look at our Ring doorbell footage showed us that it was bright and sunny back home in Durham. Typical! 🙁 However, it’s not as if it was unexpected. We’re in Scotland….
It was with excitement and anticipation that I got out of bed at 6.00am to get showered and ready. Yes! Today we were setting off on another cruise… but one with a difference. We were once again travelling up to Oban, in Scotland, to join one of the amazing little Majestic Line vessels, this time…
SUNRISE: 09:35 SUNSET: 16:52 Got up this morning at eight o’clock as usual, feeling really sad that it was the last day of our amazing cruise. Despite the fact that we were heading south all the time, the sunrise time was still a lot later than it was at home at this time of year….
SUNRISE: 09:47 SUNSET: 16:16 We awoke at eight o’clock as usual this mornng, and I called the Atlantis Spa to see if I could get a appointment to have my hair put up tonight; they managed to get me in at 3.00pm. We then got washed and dressed before making our way, as usual, to…
SUNRISE: 10:02 SUNSET: 15:16 When we got up at eight o’clock this morning, a quick look out of our portholes told us that Balmoral was already docked in Ålesund. We had visited this picturesque port a couple of times before, the last time being in February 2022 on the Borealis. We were happy to be…
All is quiet on New Year’s Day.A world in white gets underway. New Year’s Day – U2 SUNRISE: 09:59 SUNSET: 14:45 We got up at 8.00am as usual, suprisingly clear-headed after all our freebie glasses of fizz yesterday! Maybe it was because we’d spread it out over the whole day, and accompanied most of it…
