Today we slept in until next door's alarm went off at 6.50am!! We had breakfast in the Lido, then the Captain announced that Longyearbyen was expecting snow storms with 50 knot winds, making anchoring, and therefore tendering, impossible. So we motored up to their harbour, turned around and left!! We motored out really slowly so we could enjoy the stunning and desolate views. Whilst we were on deck a man offered to take our photo - he turned out to be the harp...

Today we took things slowly - breakfast at nine; attended various beauty talks, enrichment lectures for Tom; sudoko by the window in the Grand Lounge; organised transfers to Gatwick upon our return; trivia quiz in the Golden Lion, with cocktails before lunch!! More talks/demonstrations after lunch - met a lovely lady from Lockerbie. Then time to prepare for the Gold and Platinum Members Cocktail Party with the captain. The final cruise for the poor old QE2 wa...

This morning we docked in Trondheim. The port is a little way from the city so there were shuttle buses. We had our excursion booked for lunchtime so we had a late brekky and emailed the girls. there were 3 coaches to the Lokken Mines (pronounced Looken), which was a 75 minute drive. We went via the Trondheim Fjord, then boarded an old train. the train trip was quite scenic, then we were taken by coach again to the mine where we were all given raincoats and hard...

We docked in Alesund (pronounced Or-le-soond) this morning, so after breakfast Tom and I walked around the streets, looking for the post office, which was unsuccessful. It was cold, windy and very quiet so we returned to the ship and sat ourselves in comfy chairs by a window to read/do Sudoku. We had an early lunch then met on the pier with our tour group. We were given a city tour on our way to the mountain to view the lookout. Then we were taken across to ano...

We awoke and found we were travelling down a fjord this morning. We stayed in a junction of a fjord with two tugs keeping us stationery - the fjord is too deep for anchors - whilst the passengers booked on the overland trip disembarked. After breakfast we went up on deck to view the wonderful waterfalls and some communities as we slowly motored by, then I went and bought several pashminas for myself and the girls from the ship's shop. We eventually arrived at Gei...