Today we are somewhere in between St. Johns and Halifax. It's another sea day which Mom has come to love. She likes getting up when she feels like it, getting a leisurely breakfast and wandering around the ship, finally picking a nesting place to sit and relax or read a book. There's a nice library, computer room and lots of bars on board where you can just relax and do what you want. When blogging, I prefer to go to a public area and people watch whi...

We are in no rush to go ashore today as we have ample time to see this small town. I guess we didn't learn much from yesterday's mishap of arriving too late. It's no coincidence that Nanortalik, Greenland’s southernmost town founded in 1797, means the "place of bears". In Nanortalik polar bears sometimes pass by on the field ice from East Greenland in the spring.   Of course, there’s a main street in Nanortalik which is the focus of act...

We arrive in Qaqortoq, Greenland, at 8am to a beautiful blue sky, the first we've seen in many weeks. A few icebergs are floating in the harbor, nothing huge but they're still interesting. The last time we saw them was in Alaska in 2011. We're here until 4:30pm and the cruise director suggests to everyone that we take our time to get ashore. "Avoid the initial rush", he says. We have a leisurely breakfast, then around 9:30 we report to the theater t...

Ahh. An extra hour of sleep this morning. We are cruising into the Prince Christian Sound which will take us from the North Atlantic to the Labrador Sea on the west coast of Greenland. It's a fjord that cuts between the southern tip of Greenland and islands south of Greenland. It is full of waterfalls, narrow waterways passing between tall mountains whose sheer cliffs rise thousands of feet from sea level to above the clouds, glaciers calving into the sea and...

Today is a sea day and we have no planned activities. Well, not exactly. I want to go to a lecture on Greenland at 10am, Karen has laundry to do, we have a Mariner's luncheon at 1pm and our passports need to be picked up at 3:30pm. Add to that breakfast, lunch, gala dinner and the 8pm show and we actually have a pretty busy day ahead of us. It's breakfast as usual but I'm carrying my IPad with me all day so I can use any free time to catch up on my bl...