It's 7:45 a.m. and we’re just about into Tallinn, Estonia. I’ve been up all night. When the Americans say that we live in the far north of Canada I now know this to be wrong. I’ve lived in Toronto and Vancouver and spent lots of time in Northern Ontario but in all these places it get’s dark at night. Here we are in Baltic Sea at 59 degrees 30.52 N heading into Tallinn and it’s been LIGHT all night long. The biological clock / body c...

Today marks the 15th day since we left Vancouver and the 13th day of our Eurodam cruise. As I said yesterday it's going to be a relaxing one as we prepare for the next 4-city, 6 day blitz before we get another sea day. I’m scheduled for a Texas tournament at 1:30 and then we’re off to catch the 2:00 pm meeting in the Main Stage that reviews our upcoming ports of call with the Eurodam destination team. As I’ve said earlier, we do have this Spec...

Today is Sunday May 11th – Mother's Day with overcast skies – I think it’ll be raining before the day is out. We’re back on schedule and arrived on-time in this Danish city for the first time for both of us. We thought we should get an early start so we had breakfast early and were among the first to exit the ship. With T&J doing a castle tour today, we were on our own to explore this city, knowing that we’d back for another tw...

Friday, May 9th – Brugge Arriving a couple of hours late into Zeebrugge we waited for the boat to clear and headed out on the shuttle to the front gate at the Port of Zeebrugge to find our Taxi George – the company that we engaged to take us the 35 minutes to Brugge. After a little searching we found Carlos with the sign marked "Tom" in the front window. Tom had predetermined every street in centre of town for us to follow on our walking tour of ci...

It's Thursday, May 8th and we’ve arrived in France and the weather is absolutely miserable. It’s very cold, windy and rainy here. Because we didn’t arrange for any formal tour here in Cherbourg we’ve elected to stay onboard today and relax. T&J were tentatively booked for a tour so I guess they’ve got off as there is no answer in their room. They were a no-show for dinner last night so we’re hoping that they made the boat a...