So with full bags, and a full stomach following a fish and chip lunch overlookingHaylingIslandbasking in the Spring sunshine, our friend Terry made it through the traffic of the busiest Friday of the year (pre-Easter) to get us to Terminal 3 at Heathrow where we joined the short line for the Qantas flight toPerth. We [...]
We walked the streets and dockside of Ǻlesund, on this very quiet and chilly Sunday(25th) morning. There was one shop that was brave enough to open and stood there with its doors wide open like welcoming arms – brim full with all the souvenirs that we didn’t want. Every Viking ornament you could imagine, and [...]
23rd March – I rose about 6 am to follow the course of the ship as we sailed up the fjord towards the iron-ore town ofNarvik. My interest was historical as it was here in 1940 that the German war machine received a bloody nose at the hands of the Royal Navy. Seeking to obtain [...]
A few days have passed by and we are now nestling in at the harbour at Tromso,(22nd) as the snow falls to carpet everything around us, disguising to some effect the usual array of containers and dockside detritus familiar in every port in the world. Our three days at Alta atop the Scandinavian landmass featured [...]
The Northern Lights – SagaPearlII – March 2012 The weather around Canillas de Aceituno had been very good for a few days – bright blue skies, sunshine and a crystal clear view of the heavens at night. So it was with a little trepidation that we set out on the Monday morning, courtesy of a [...]
