Category: Borealis

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...

Today, I believe we experienced a glitch in the Matrix. Yesterday, we drove south from our home in West Yorkshire and stayed in a Travelodge in Ringwood, in preparation for boarding Fred Olsen’s Borealis in Southampton tomorrow. Last night I watched the World Cup semi-final, and England lost to Argentina; no glitch there, then. Things seemed to go awry when...