Norwegian Fjords 2023

. . . Not my actual legs🤦🏻‍♀️ By the time you read this we will be back on UK soil and the washing machine will be strutting its stuff. Connectivity is non-existent on the ship as whilst the Wi-Fi is expensive the more pertinent issue is that its painfully slow. It took nearly 6 hours […]

On Friday we woke up to the sight of a huge wind turbine outside the window. We didn’t know it at the time but how apt. Haugesund originally made its money from herring fishing. Then it’s industry changed to build the boats to fish the herring. Then it built the larger ships to export the […]

We are little ravers and sociable souls talking to lots of nice people and not going to bed until midnight each night so it really shocked us awake when the alarm went off at 06:30 – I mean this is supposed to be a holiday! We had a trip booked and we needed our tenders […]

Maybe “Water, water everywhere” would have been a better title for this post as Monday night and Tuesday morning were rough. Very high winds battering the ship, making it difficult to walk without appearing drunk. So much water the decks were closed, apart from the outdoor jacuzzi and around the outdoor pool as that was […]

Going by ship can still mean an early start as we had to get to Southampton and so we were up at 05:45, and after a flawless connection by luxury coach travel we got to Southampton by 13:30. Check in was far less painful than at an airport despite me not following my own airport/flying […]