Random thoughts from the sea
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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Day 21, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Thursday, June 1, 2023; Falmouth, England. I wish I had a week to see Cornwall. Or at least two more days. It’s a somewhat wild county, with coasts both on the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. If you are a fan of British
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Day 19, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Tuesday, May 30, 2023; Portland/Weymouth, England. One of the beauties of travel is that once you are exposed to a new place or event, it pops up again and again. Perhaps it is because of familiarity, like when you buy a new car, you
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Day 17, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Sunday, May 28, 2023; Rotterdam, Netherlands Yesterday was turnaround day, in which about 1,400 passengers left and about the same number joined our cruise on the Zuiderdam. Maybe a third of the latter are Dutch. For their convenience, the cruise director gives his daily
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Day 16, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Saturday, May 27, 2023; Dover, England. Fractured kneecap? What fractured kneecap? Today, I astonished myself and put in five miles, 30 flights up stairs (and 30 back down) and a lot of other steep climbs and descents. I walked from the city center of
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Day 15, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Friday, May 26, 2023; Le Havre, France. Spring has sprung in France, and more specifically in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France. The rows of plants in front of the house are packed with blooms – every kind of flower you can imagine. I
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