Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we were scheduled to arrive at Husavik, our first Icelandic port-of-call. Even more excitingly, Tracey and I were assigned tour-escorting duties on the Whale-watching excursion. Sadly, we never made it… Approaching Iceland for the first time is something that I’m never going to forget. We were due to arrive sometime around midday, but the spectacular, snow-covered landscape of Northern...

The whole ship was up early today, for what can only described as ‘The Main Event’. We set the alarm for 7:30am, had finished breakfast and was up on the top deck with the milling throng, by 8:30am. As you can imagine, the anticipation was quite intense. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t playing ball. The captain explained over the PA that...

Today, we arrived at our first port-of-call; Torshaven, in the Faroe Islands. The sky was an overcast steely-grey and it was raining; not so dissimilar to North Yorkshire then (except, I have it on good authority that North Yorkshire has been sunny and clear today). We arrived at 9am, more or less on time, but due to a minor issue...

Today was our second sea-day, and the second of my watercolour workshops; a Tonal Study. Getting a group to paint a picture using only a single colour is the best way to learn about the importance of contrasting tonal values, and an exercise that always seems to go down well. Everybody seemed pleased, and the group seems to be settling...

Today was our first sea-day, and the first of my watercolour workshops in the Lookout Lounge, located right at the front end of the ship. First workshops are always a little chaotic, and today was no exception. I was up against a lecture on the Eclipse and Northern lights, though, so numbers were inevitably a bit down. I’ve been allocated...