Peter's Travel Blog

We’ve changed direction, and are now heading South, with the north-west coast of Scotland off to our port side somewhere. You can’t see it, but the captain assures us we should, hopefully, be able to see the isle of Lewis later this afternoon. With only one more sea-day coming up after this one (Saturday), I decided the time was right to...

We had a rough night last night, and the seas have continued today. After breakfast, Tracey and I went up onto the top deck, mostly to get some fresh air, but also to watch the movement of the ship. Stood on the open deck, it’s quite amazing to watch how the ship is being tossed about on the waves. Today,...

This trip, so far, has been slightly frustrating for several reasons. Four Iceland port-stops being reduced down to two is one of them. It’s no-one’s fault, of course; the weather has been such that the decision to abort our stop in Husavik was clearly a sensible one, based on maximising the safety of the passengers. Unfortunately, it also meant that...

The newly-arranged itinerary meant I had an unexpected class today (Blues Afloat – a simple boat scene in three colours), and an opportunity to take in a couple of lectures. We arrived in Reykjarvik, the Capital of Iceland, at approximately 4:30pm, giving us a few hours to go exploring before dinner time. The distance into the town centre from the...

Last night we saw the Aurora Borealis. We didn’t do the excursion – although by all accounts, they saw the Northern Lights too – we saw them off the back of the ship. It was about 10pm; we’d missed the show because of faffing about with Tracey’s computer, and were sat enjoying a relaxing drink in Scot’s Lounge, when one...