A life on the ocean wave,A home on the rolling deep,Where the scatter’d waters raveAnd the winds their revels keep. Henry Russell, 1838 Woke up several times in the night; if it wasn’t because I was rolling from side to side in bed it was because of the torrential rain that lashed our balcony, accompanied…
OUR PEARL (30th) WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Masquerade! Paper faces on paradeMasquerade! Hide your face so the world will never find youMasquerade! Every face a different shadeMasquerade! Look around, there’s another mask behind you From “The Phantom of the Opera” Trevor and I were married on 15th October 1988, so today we were celebrating our 30th wedding…
After an excellent’s night sleep, during which time the Queen Victoria glided through the calm Mediterranean sea, we got up around 8.15am and went out on the balcony to see what the weather was like. It was pleasant; not too hot or too cold, just ideal for strolling the decks. The Lido self-service restaurant was…
We awoke this morning to a flat-calm North Sea with the sun tentatively peeping out from fluffy white cumulus clouds. We were up at 8.00am, and off we went to the Ballindalloch restaurant for our breakfast. As tonight is a formal evening, we found the usual bottles of cava next to the fruit juices, so…
Didn’t really sleep very well last night because of my cold. So I was tired this morning and didn’t want to go up to breakfast, despite the fact that tonight will be the last formal night and the free fizz would be on offer. 🙂 Instead, I just took a leisurely shower and blow-dried my…
Woke up early this morning as we were still on British time. So we leapt out of bed around 6.45am and happily made our way up to the Grampian restaurant for breakfast. As tonight would see the first of three Formal nights, we knew that there would be free Buck’s Fizz or prosecco/cava on offer…
I was tired when the alarm went off this morning, probably because of a combination of late nights and overindulgence, as well as the clocks having to go forward an hour again this morning. So it was around 8.45am before I go out of my pit and got washed and dressed before breakfast. Outside, the…
It was with excitement that we woke up this morning and eagerly looked out of our portholes for our first glimpse of Greenland. We had tried to go to Greenland on a cruise 10 years ago (June 2006) but there was too much sea ice so the ship, the Funchal, couldn’t risk trying to land. …
We were up about 8.00am and looked out of our portholes, to a fairly calm sea and blue sky with fluffy white clouds. We hoped it would be a fine day, but on this cruise we really didn’t know what sort of weather to expect, heading north as we were. When we got along to…
Light filtered its way in between our cabin curtains at 03.46 this morning, the dawn light pale and clear. We were due to arrive in Skjolden at around 07.30am. Skjolden lies at the head of the Sognefjord, the longest navigable fjord in Norway. It’s a small but idyllic village with a marina, a restaurant, a…
