Category: Iceland

Today, we arrived at our first Icelandic port-of-call, Akureyri. We have been here before, on ‘Voyager’ in 2015 (on the ‘Eclipse’ cruise). On our previous visit, we opted for a simple, short, local walk. Today, we were booked on an excursion to see Godafoss Waterfall. It’s a 45-minute coach journey there, and the same again to come back, with roughly...

Today we arrived at Honningsvag. We have been here before, but on previous visits we’ve always arrived in the dark and left in the dark. This time around, however, it was most definitely daytime for the whole of our visit, and the weather has remained clear, warm and sunny, against everyone’s expectations (and nobody is complaining…). We had an early...

Today we arrived in Tromso, to the sound of tap tap tapping. The crew were doing some necessary maintenance work on the balconies down our side of the ship (starboard), which was not entirely unexpected, as we’d received a letter advising us that the work would be taking place. It’s been a bit cooler, and I’ve been back in long...

Once again, weve had two full classes. In fact, the class was almost full at 8:45am, when we turned up to the Amalfi to set up, with everyone already sat at the tables, waiting. By 9am, all available places had been taken. One thing I find slightly disconcerting is when some folks have laid down their first washes long before...

Today, we dropped anchor off the Lofoten Islands, in Norway. It brought back memories of running aground in the Marco Polo and the shenanigans that followed. Today, from 8am, tender boats were ferrying passengers ashore, although by time we were ready to go ashore (about 10.45am), armed with fleeces, waterproofs, bananas and Maps.Me, there was only the two of us...