Woke up quite late this morning, around 8.30am, to the sideways view of the Oslofjord gliding past our window. If you wanted to experience the scenic cruising along the fjord, you had to be up at seven o’clock but after our late night I was too tired. Nonetheless, I was still able to see some…
Got up around 8.30am to find the Bolette docked in Copenhagen, Denmark, in exactly the same place as we had been docked on Arcadia in December. It seemed strange to be back in Copenhagen again so soon (and indeed this is our fifth visit here) but there’s always plenty to see and do in Denmark’s…
Woke up at eight o’clock this morning in pleasant anticipation of the relaxing sea day we had ahead of us. But at the same time, it was not without a tinge of dismay that we realised we only had four more sleeps on board the good ship Bolette. đ Going outside onto our massive balcony,…
Woke up this morning around eight o’clock, and went out onto our giant balcony to watch the Bolette manoevring into the port of the Nynäsham, Sweden, which would be our gateway to Stockholm. We had last visited Stockholm in 2002, on the Caronia, so we were excited to be back in this interesting and picturesque…
Got up at 8.30 this morning – it felt earlier as we were now two hours ahead of the UK in line with Finnish time. We were booked to go on a half-day tour of Helsinki and we had to assemble in the Neptune Lounge at 9.40am, giving us an hour to get ready and…
When we woke up this morning in our suite (!!) around eight o’clock it was with a smile on our faces as we anticipated the leisurely sea day ahead of us. Trevor went up to The View for his breakfast, but I decided to have a coffee and enjoy some of the fresh fruit in…
When we woke up this morning we found ourselves about to dock in Kiel, Germany. We hadnât been here before so we were looking forward to exploring. We didnât have an excursion until this afternoon, so our time this morning was ours to spend as we pleased. After breakfast we went up on deck to…
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…
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 couldnât see much…
