We were up at 7.30am, as we wanted to spend the morning in Copenhagen before the Balmoral set sail at midday. The weather was still bright and sunny, with a vivid blue, cloudless sky. As the Palms Café didn’t open until eight o’clock, we made our way instead to the Ballindalloch Restaurant for breakfast, and…
Got up this morning at 8.00am to see blue skies and fluffy white clouds out of our window, as well as a perfectly calm Baltic sea (or were we back in the North Sea now). I wasn’t sure.). As we were not due to dock in Copenhagen until one o’clock this afternoon, we had a…
As our meeting time for our scenic excursion this morning wasn’t until 9.15am, we got up at eight and looked out of the window, to find ourselves docked in picturesque Tórshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands. We had been here twice before, in 2006 and in 2016, but it’s such a lovely place, all green…
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…
When we woke up at 7.30 this morning, the Bolette was already docked in Aarhus, Denmark. We had never been to this port before so we were looking forward to our half-day tour. Going out onto our gigantic balcony, we could see a cathedral with an interesting green roof and spire in the near distance. …
Woke up to the happy anticipation of wandering the charming streets of Denmark, and perhaps partaking of a Carlsberg (what else?) or two. 😊 Looking out from our balcony, we noticed that the CitySightseeing hop-on-hop-off bus was parked up, so we decided that would be what we’d do for today. We breakfasted as usual in…
WINTER SOLSTICE When the days are short and the nights are dark and cold, many people welcome the Winter Solstice (the “shortest day of the year”) as the sign that the sun is on its way back again. We got up with morning at 8.30am; I would like to have said that we had an…
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…
When we woke up this morning the Black Watch was gliding slowly along the river, just about to dock in Aalborg, Denmark’s fourth largest city situated right on the waterfront. We hadn’t booked any city tours today as the ship was docked literally across the road from the town; we could see a pub called…
