Category: Marco Polo

Today, we arrived at our final Canadian port-of-call, L’Anse aux Meadows. It being our final destination on this side of the Atlantic, I felt a certain obligation to at least check it out. However; I wasn’t on escort duty, it was a tender port, the weather was wet and windy, and it was only a half-day. Add to this the...

Today, we left Corner Brook at about 10am after having stayed overnight. The rest of the day we’ve been cruising towards our final Canadian destination. Not much else has happened. We’ve chugged along at a leisurely pace, and, finally, left the Lawrence River behind. This afternoon, I had classes (Line and Wash), which were well attended… that’s about it. Everything...

I just want to say that Corner Brook Cruise Terminal has the worse wi-fi in the whole history of Cruise terminal wi-fi. The port authority should be thoroughly ashamed of itself, laying on such an inferior, painfully inadequate service such as this, for visiting ships. The wi-fi was so bad that having no wi-fi at all would be a vast...

Today, we dropped anchor in the bay off Cap-aux-Meules. I chose to stay on board for the morning and work. There are always queues to get the first tender tickets and the boats are packed full of passengers eager to get as much time ashore as possible, and those on excursions. By the time I was ready to go ashore,...

This morning, we arrived in Havre St Pierre. I have to say that when you get a large number of consecutive port stops, things start to blur a little. It gets so that I can’t remember the names of the places we’ve visited, and most times I can’t even remember what day it is. Stand-out locations and memorable moments will...