Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we arrived in Olden, a small village not dissimilar to the one we visited in the previous port. Once again, the Marco Polo was berthed alongside a quay surrounded by high, impressive, snow-capped mountains. Once again, Tracey and I were on Escort duty (we’ve done very well out of it, so far…); today, coaches took us up the valley...

This morning, we were up early to see our first Norwegian Fjord. As the ship sailed quietly in, we marvelled at the slopes rising up on either side of us; so impossibly steep in places, and so beautifully shrouded in mist, clinging to their upper slopes… It was early (not yet 8am), and the sun hadn’t properly risen. Not that...

Today was our first full day at sea, as we head towards Norway. We checked the map to see just how far North we would be heading over the next week or so and was quite amazed…. much further North than St. Petersburg… I’ve been allocated the afternoons in the conference room, which gave us the morning free to enjoy...

Today, we arrived back in Tilbury. Before any of the passengers had started to disembark, we were off the ship, heading for the passenger ferry right next door to the cruise terminal, to take us to Gravesend. Unfortunately, the next ferry wouldn’t come to pick us up for another hour, so we returned to the terminall and took a taxi...