We woke up this morning with the pleasant thought of having a whole relaxing day at sea; we had already looked at the Daily Times programme of events to see that there was a packed itinerary in store for us today. The weather was, as usual, below zero and the motion of the Borealis was…
We woke up around eight o’clock this morning on 22/2/22 (!) to find that the Borealis was docked in Narvik, a new port of call that we hadn’t visited before. Strangely enough, Narvik is further north than Bodø; we had been heading south since leaving Ålta but now we were temporarily heading north again. 🙂…
Got up at 07.45 this morning as we were going on an excursion after breakfast. We had last visited Bodø in June 1999 on the M/S Funchal, and it was a pleasure to be back in this charming little town, which heavily features many sculptures and street art. Once again, the weather was crisp and…
This morning we woke up to quite a noticeable ship’s motion as the Borealis ploughed her way through the waves. Once again the temperature was below zero, and the clouds scudded through the windblown skies. We had a full day at sea to look forward to today. We breakfasted, as usual, in the Lido restaurant,…
We woke up this morning to a bitterly-cold today; the weather app told us we could expect temperatures today as low as -14ºC. This is Norway in the winter – I would have been disappointed if it hadn’t been cold. 🙂 We enjoyed our breakfast up in the buffet as usual, before venturing out on…
We woke up at eight o’clock this morning to find the Borealis slowly sailing into her berth in Ålta. Looking out of the window, we could see we were adjacent to the long runway of the airport; in fact we were going to dock in the same place that we had when we were here…
MY BIRTHDAY It was with great excitement that we woke up this morning on this, my 61st birthday. Quite a contrast to my birthday last year, which was spent in full lockdown where I couldn’t have a party, couldn’t go out to a restaurant, couldn’t go to the pub, couldn’t have friends over. Here we…
We awoke this morning to a cloudless, vivid blue Arctic sky; the temperature being a chilly -8ºC. We went to the Lido restaurant on Deck 8 and got a table by the window so we could watch the progress of the Borealis into port; we were due to dock in Tromsø around 10.00am. This is…
We got up at 07:45 this morning; we were originally going to get up at seven o’clock and go for our breakfast before being out on deck for 8.00am. However, we decided to go out on deck for our sightseeing first, the have our breakfast afterwards, thereby earning a lie-in. This is because our daily…
We awoke around 8.30 this morning and looked out of our window to see craggy, snowy mountains under a blue sky as the Borealis slowly manoeuvred herself into her berth in Ålesund, Norway. We had first visited this lovely little town in November 2014 on the Boudicca, and we were happy to be back. Two…
