Peter's Travel Blog

Today we visited the final port on our 8-day itinerary, Bergen. It turned out to be not quite the adventure we’d originally planned. Our original plan was to take the funicular railway up to the top of the hill and walk as far as we could, on the higher hiking trails, within the time allowed. In the end, it was...

Today, we arrived in Skjolden (pronounced Shol-den). We haven’t been here before, so we were quite keen to get ashore and explore. As we got our things together and headed towards the gangway, the crew were in the middle of one of their regular drills. We warmed to the place almost immediately, with its tranquil waters and steep-sided mountains, and...

Today we arrived in Eidfjord, a place we’ve been to a couple of times before, so we know what to expect. It was just a half-day visit (Sunday); we’ll be sailing again this afternoon and I’ll be giving my second painting class, so we headed ashore determined to make the most of our relatively short visit. A fifteen to twenty...

Once again we had a rough night’s sailing. When we awoke in the morning, Tracey wasn’t feeling too good so she took some sea sickness tablets and went back to bed while I went up the The View to eat breakfast by myself. This was all fine because we didn’t arrive at our first port-of-call, Stavanger, until lunchtime. By then,...

After a rough sea last night, today was the first full sea day, and the first of my painting classes. And I should start by saying the dedicated art studio on the Borealis is absolutely fantastic!… …it could do with a couple more tables and more chairs, but the space is light and airy, and pretty much perfect for the...