We had to be up early this morning and along to our assembly point in the Neptune Lounge for this morning’s excursion, which was called “A Taste of the Island” and would let us explore Mindelo in more detail from our brief look around yesterday. We were allocated bus number 8 as we made our…
When we woke up this morning, the Braemar was just about anchored at Porto Novo, Santo Antão, one of the islands that make up the archipelago of Cape Verde. The wind was strong and the water looked very choppy. We’d got up early as we were due to go on a half-day excursion this morning…
We have started to take our Malarone prophylaxis tablets as, once we arrive in West Africa, we will be in a malaria zone. Today, however, would see another leisurely sea day before we reach terra firma tomorrow morning. The weather was sunny and warm, just what we’d been waiting for (we are, after all, now…
We got up early this morning in order to be in the Palms Café in good time, as experience on Fred Olsen ships had taught us that there would be a free ‘champagne’ breakfast, because tonight is the first formal evening. On Fred ships, whenever it is a formal night, they always put bottles of…
…Falls mainly in Tenerife. Or so it seemed, when we woke up to low cloud and intermittent showers. This is our fourth visit to Tenerife on a cruise ship and it’s the coldest and wettest it’s been. We got up about 8.30am and went to the Palm’s Café for a light breakfast, before getting ourselves…
Well, once again it is time for us to go on another cruise. We will be spending the next fortnight on Fred Olsen’s Braemar, a lovely little ship we’ve been on before, to the Amazon in February 2011. So it will be nice to be back. We got up this morning at 3.00am (!!) as…
We were up early this morning to make the most of our last sea day (in fact, our last night on the Black Watch) before our arrival back in Newcastle tomorrow morning. 🙁 I got showered and sorted before we went up to the Neptune Lounge to listen to a lecture by polar expeditionary /historian…
Friday, 19th July 2013 It was another bright and sunny day when we woke up this morning, with nary a cloud in the sky. But there were little black clouds forming above our heads as we tried to shake off the depressing fact that our holiday was fast coming to an end. 🙁 We…
The first thing we did when we woke up this morning was look out of our portholes to see what the weather was like. Smaller wavelets indicated to us that the wind had dropped, and the sun was peeping out now and then through the fluffy white clouds. So it looked as though it was…
Tuesday, 16th July 2013 This morning we woke up to find ourselves in St. Petersburg, Russia. We had actually been here before; in 1996 when we stayed here for three days as part of a tour of Russia, and in 2002 when we had an overnight port of call on board the Caronia. Today was…
