Category: Cruises

This is blog post #28 from our tour of northern Europe. On Friday, July 25th, we spent the day at sea, and on Saturday the 26th we docked at Dover with big plans for our final port day of the 28-cruise on the Nieuw Statendam. My sea day began...

This is blog post #27 from our tour of northern Europe. On Thursday, July 24th, we anchored off Lerwick, the main town on the Shetland archipelago, and tendered into town. We began by looking around the town, then went on an excellent bus tour from there to the southernmost...

This is blog post #26 from our tour of northern Europe. On Wednesday, July 23rd, after spending the previous day at sea, sailing from Iceland, we docked at Runavik. We had no plans and as it turned out, didn’t do much, though I walked 5.6 km. Sea days are...

This is blog post #25 from our tour of northern Europe. On Monday, July 21st, after spending the night docked at Reyjavik on our ship, we took an 8-hour bus tour of the Reykjanes Peninsula, always a great area to tour for volcanic features, but with an eruption currently...

This is blog post #23 from our tour of northern Europe. On Saturday, July 19th, we visited Grundarfjörður, a community of about 880. While we had lots of time to explore, being there from 08:00 until 7:30 pm, visibility was very poor. My hadn’t booked an excursion, though, and...

This is blog post #22 from our tour of northern Europe. On Wednesday, July 16th, we arrived at our second Greenland port stop, Qaqortoq (formerly known as Julianehåb), and started tendering ashore at 08:00. We didn’t have any plans, but the ports where that’s been the case have worked...

This is blog post #21 from our tour of northern Europe. On Tuesday, July 15th, we were offshore from Paamiut, Greenland, having arrived the previous night. We would tender ashore after breakfast. Cathy and I planned to look around the community for as long as she wanted, then I...

This is blog post #20 from our tour of northern Europe. Monday, July 14th, was technically our third “at sea” day from Iceland – that is, we didn’t touch land. But as with yesterday’s incredible day in Prince Christian Sound, today offered much more than open sea. We got...

This is blog post #19 from our tour of northern Europe. On Sunday, July 13th, we sailed into Prins Christian Sund (Prince Christian Sound). I’ll begin by saying that this 62-mile-long fjord system provided the most spectacular cruising I have ever experienced, and my regular readers know that I’ve...

This is, compared to what I have been posting, a mini-post, with only 15 photos, to show you a bit more of what our days at sea are like. On Friday, July 11th, we sailed from Ísafjörður, bound for Greenland. We spent a day on the open sea, then...