Peter's Travel Blog

  Today, we arrived in a cold and windy Warnemunde, in Northern Germany, a small town which essentially acts as port to the city of Rostock, and is a very popular seaside destination for the Germans; sort of like a German version of Whitby. Being primarily a fishing port, it has lots of fish, but not a lot in the...

Today, we arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark, the home of Hans Christian Anderson. We knew when we were arriving, at around 7am, because the noises that had disturbed us two nights before, happened again. Our cabin is located right at the very front of the ship, and as far as we can tell, when the ship is about to arrive at...

Sunday afternoon and evening, the sea didn’t improve much. In fact, it deteriorated so much that Tracey headed for bed, missing dinner and the comedian’s show, and didn’t emerge until Monday morning, by which time the swell had eased us into much calmer waters (relatively speaking). This was our first full day at sea, on our way towards Copenhagen, and...

This morning, we arrived at our first port-of call; Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It came after a long night of strange, and persistent, mechanical whining and banging noises that started around about 2am and went on until our arrival somewhere around 7am, distrupting our sleep and making us wonder if our wonderful cabin was probably not quite as...

Today, we boarded the good ship Magellan, at London Tilbury Cruise Terminal. I’m pleased to say that, so far at least, everything has gone according to plan. Tracey and I drove down from North Yorkshire yesterday and spent the evening in a Travelodge. Since embarkation would be starting at 10:45am, much earlier than we’re used to, we figured it would...