Category: Marco Polo

Today, we are at sea, heading North-West towards our next port-of-call, Reykjarvik in Iceland, and I have my second classes this afternoon (Tonal Study). Yesterday afternoon, after lunch, I took the shuttle bus back into town to use the wi-fi in the library again, but found it unresponsive and highly frustrating. I’m pretty sure it’s because there were more people...

Today we arrived in Torshavn, in the Faroe Islands. The day didn’t start too well.I was quite miffed to receive a small knock on the cabin door, and the call ‘Housekeeping’… [knock knock] … ‘Housekeeping’… [knock knock]… I won’t repeat my reply verbatim, but it was somewhere along the lines of ‘Seriously?…. do you know what flipping time it is?….’...

Today, we arrived at our first port; Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, only 6 miles from Scotland, which meant I was able to connect to a non-roaming network on my phone and use my own wi-fi hotspot… yeeey! Apparently, Orkney comprises 67 rocks, islands and skerries, covering an area of 376 square miles and has a population of 21,000 human...

Today was our first full day at sea, as we headed North, up the East coast of Britain, towards our first scheduled port-of-call; Lerwick in the Shetland Isles. At noon, however, an announcement was made that, due to our delayed departure from Tilbury (nowt to do with me, by the way; they were waiting for a delivery of essential supplies…...

Following notification of the Marco Polo’s two hour delay, my departure time from home was duly put back by a couple of hours, and I enjoyed a leisurely morning before setting off for Tilbury from North Yorkshire. What started out as a well-paced, rather idyllic day, soon turned into something very different, however. Only an hour before leaving, I noticed...