Random thoughts from the sea
Day 39, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Monday, June 19, 2023; Hammerfest and North Cape, Norway. Today I set a new personal record for northernmost travel. We cruised beneath the towering cliffs of Norway’s North Cape. My map app measured our progress to 71.15973 degrees north (and 24.74017 degrees east). I
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Day 38, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Sunday, June 18, 2023; Alta, Norway. In lieu of exploring the Svalbard archipelago, we are cruising through stunning scenery of the northern cape of Norway. It’s not a disappointing tradeoff. The most awesome aspect of this journey for me has been the Midnight Sun
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Days 35-36, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Thursday and Friday, June 15-16, 2023; Molde and Trondheim, Norway. This cruise up the coast of Norway is something of a consolation voyage. Originally, we were to sail to Svalbard, an archipelago far north of Norway’s North Cape. Sadly, the cruise line canceled those
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Day 34, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Wednesday, June 14, 2023; Bergen, Norway. The third time was the charm for Bergen. It is said to be the rainiest city in Norway (more rainy days than London), and my visits in 2019 and last April proved that true. Today was sunny, with
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Days 31 and 32, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Sunday and Monday, June 11-12, 2023; Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Dover, England. Capt. Friso warned us Sunday night that we might have heavy fog in Dover this morning, and he proved correct. My first view of the white cliffs was of a white
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Days 28 and 29, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Thursday and Friday, June 8-9, 2023; Invergordon and Edinburgh, Scotland. Just a few feet under the festive crowds on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile lies a world of dankness, darkness and disease. I spent an hour today exploring Mary King’s Close, venturing hundreds of
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Days 26 and 27, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Tuesday and Wednesday, June 6-7, 2023; Portree and Kirkwall, Scotland. I wasn’t expecting much of Kirkwall as I knew next to nothing about it, other than it is in the Orkney Islands on the north of Scotland. Kirkwall is perhaps best known
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Day 24, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Sunday, June 4, 2023; Liverpool, England. Today was museum day for me, and it started with the Beatles, of course. After all, we’re in Liverpool, and while the mythical Liver birds on top of the Royal Liver Building might be the icon of the
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Day 23, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Saturday, June 3, 2023; Dún Laoghaire/Dublin, Ireland. Another Irish restaurant, another bowl of fish chowder, this time with a side of mussels and a local pint, as they say. This time the chowder was heavy on the potatoes, but the flavor was great and
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Day 22, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Friday, June 2, 2023; Ringaskiddy/Cork, Ireland. I complain about the Zuiderdam docking in Ringaskiddy – an industrial port with nothing – no shops, no pubs, no restaurants, no bus or train stations. And the picturesque scene of Cobh and its shops, pubs, restaurants and
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