So say the opening lines of that well-known Welsh anthem, as we woke up this morning, after a nice quiet night, in Holyhead, Wales. Holyhead is the largest town in Anglesey and is known mainly as a busy ferry port. It therefore has a rich maritime history and some lovely beaches and coastal walks, and…
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Missing Man
Well, what a complete waste of a day today turned out to be! During the night I woke up several times and I could hear the wind howling and the waves crashing against the hull of the Adonia below our balcony. After 32 cruises, we are used to feeling the motion of the ship when…
Greenock, Scotland
Once again we woke up to a cloudy sky, but at least it was dry. 🙂 We hadn’t booked an excursion today, preferring instead to explore Greenock on our own. People who arrive in Greenock tend to see it as the gateway to Glasgow and go straight there, but as we’ve already been to Glasgow…
Hebrides and Malin
When we woke up this morning, we looked out to a grey sky and grey sea, and a cold wind was blowing. God, the British weather is really rubbish. Here it is, May Bank Holiday weekend, and we still have the vestiges of the winter hanging on. I don’t know why we bothered to get…
Scrabster and John o’ Groats
Though the sea was a lot calmer this morning, the rough weather yesterday meant our arrival in Scrabster was delayed by about 90 minutes. So it wasn’t until 10 o’clock that we docked in this fishing port in the Scottish county of Caithness. We’d never been here before but we learned that Scrabster is Britain’s…
There Are Warnings Of Gales…
During the night we woke several times as the wind had got up and large waves were crashing off the side of the Adonia, and we could feel our beds shaking. When we got up it was quite difficult moving around our cabin due to the ship’s motion. Not to worry though; sea-sickness has never…
In Dublin’s Fair City
When we awoke this morning, the Adonia was already moored up in the capital city of the emerald isle. There is a very old joke that asks “Which country is the richest in the world?” and the answer is “Ireland, because its capital is always Dublin.” 🙂 We had been here once before, on the…
Fastnet and Lundy
As we are doing a cruise in British waters, I thought I would continue this blog using the title of whichever shipping forecast area we happen to be sailing in on that day. We woke up this morning and went up to the Conservatory for our breakfast, and afterwards we went out on deck to…
Hidden Gems of the British Isles
In all our years of cruising, many thousands of nautical miles right across the globe, we’ve tended to neglect our own green and pleasant land with all its history, heritage and rugged beauty. So it was at 4.00am this morning that woke up and got ourselves ready for the long journey from Durham to Southampton,…
Ashore in Argentina
We were up bright and early this morning, dressed and packed up and along to breakfast before getting our hand-luggage (our cases had already been collected from outside our door in the early hours of the morning) and going along to the Globe lounge to await our call to disembark. Then down the gangplank we…