Tuesday 26th June - Wednesday 27th June All at sea. Thursday 28th June Arrived in Dublin at about 3am & were woken by the thrusters turning the ship in the port. Got up latish as we couldn't leave too early to find us moored on a quay with a scrap heap of steel just across from us together with a yard of coal fines, all in all a really salubrious berth. For the first time since boarding the weather seemed quite warm at 18°C, with the sun shining. Af...

Monday 25th June At about 1.00am we were woken by the sound of the bow thrusters which are quite close to our cabin. These were working for about 35 minutes although we didn't appear to be going anywhere. Later this evening the Captain told us that they had to use them to hold the ship from being blown away from the quay. Up early today to catch the bus for our tour at 8am. By 8.30 standing in the squally weather it turned up & by good fortune, we scor...

Saturday 23rd June Today we anchored off Isafjordur & were tendered in to the port area. The town of about 2800 people sits in a fjord with some rather forbidding mesa like hills around it streaked with snow. It was 8°C & grey but luckily free of wind so we set out to explore the old town with its quaint houses mostly clad in colourbond sheeting, some almost like Subi houses of the 1900s. It is a fishing port but there weren't many vessels in por...

Thursday 21st June Back at sea again on the way to Iceland. Some swell & waves but still quite acceptable as she is a good sea boat. Life on board is fairly leisurely with a piano recital, a lecture on the great liners & a night at the cinema. Friday 22nd June Arrived off Akureyri in the Eyjarfjordur on the northern coast of Iceland at about 7.00am but as in Norway the winds were too high, at 45+knots, for the captain to berth the ship & so for...

Saturday 16th June Were up latish before a great breakfast. We heard about all the family's activities from our friends & had a lovely lazy morning before walking down to a local pub for lunch. The garden was set between two streams of a fast flowing tributary of the Test flowing through Winchester. Gareth then drove us to Southampton where we boarded the ship at about 3.45 & by 4.30 we were off down Southampton water sailing out of Spithead between ...