What a perfectly delightful day we had today! We woke up at 7.30am, as the Balmoral was slowly sailing into the port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. We had arrived in our 94th country. 🙂 We went up to the Palms Café and enjoyed some breakfast before going outside onto the rear decks. The weather was already…
After an excellent night’s sleep, we awoke this morning and looked out of the window to see what the weather was like. After the warmth and sunshine of yesterday, we were surprised to see grey skies and a grey, fairly lively-looking Baltic. The forecast said we could expect rain showers and possibly thunder later this…
How strange that we should be visiting Berlin today, the very day after England lost the Euro 2024 final… in Berlin. We wondered what the aftermath of the competition in Germany’s capital would be like. 🙂 We were up at 7.30pm to get washed and dressed and enjoy a good breakfast, as we had a…
As expected, it was very difficult for me to get out of my pit this morning, not only because of the late night, but because of one cocktail too many. I didn’t want to go up to breakfast, so Trevor made me a coffee in the cabin and went off to breakfast on his own,…
Woke up this morning when the alarm went off, and looked out of our window to grey skies and a grey North Sea; it was difficult to see where the sea ended and the sky started. After the lovely sunny day we had yesterday in Rosyth, we were disappointed not to see the sun today,…
When we got up at 7.30 this morning it was with happy and exciting anticipation of the day we had in store because, once again, we were setting off on a cruise! 🙂 Yes! We were joining Fred Olsen’s Balmoral later on today in Rosyth, Scotland, for a 10-day cruise around the Baltic, transiting the…
We always leave our stateroom curtains open about 18″ as we love to wake up to the sights and sounds of the sea. I was woken by light filtering into the cabin, but it was only 5.15am. Getting out of bed, I wandered over to the balcony and saw that the Queen Anne was making…
Not a lot to write about today. We woke up feeling quite sad that this would be our last sea day and we would have to drag our cases out from under the bed and start our packing later on. 🙁 At 10.00am we took our seats in the Royal Court Theatre to watch/listen to…
Woke up this morning and went out onto our balcony as the Queen Anne was making her way towards La Coruña, a city in the Galicia region of northern Spain. The sky was dull with ominous-looking grey clouds, and there was a hint of moisture in the air. As this was our last port of…
Didn’t do much at all today. It was just another one of those long, leisurely, lazy sea days where sitting doing nothing except gazing out to sea and thinking pleasant thoughts took up much of our time. 🙂 This blog entry will therefore be very short. 🙂 We had our breakfast, as usual, in the…
