Category Archives: Trips

The last of the “early” starts for us. We’re in Helsinki, Finland that may give you a clue for the title! After another room service breakfast we headed out to our bus. It was overcast, drizzly and around 16C. Today … Continue reading →

By the time we got up we had arrived in Estonia. Today was overcast, 20C and threatening rain. After breakfast we had a forced walk around the ship as our cabin was been cleaned. This time we took the indoor … Continue reading →

The clocks went forward again last night so the time difference between Ottawa and where we are is 7 hours. Being a sea day there is no great rush to get up, so we can sleep off the lost hour! … Continue reading →

We had passed into the Baltic sea last night, and docked in Warnemünde early in the morning We had an even earlier start this morning, I won’t mention the time as it will only encourage ridicule! Room service again provided … Continue reading →

Our second and final stop in Denmark. As we had an early(for us !) start today, we took advantage of room service for breakfast in our cabin. Life is so tough!! We headed down to the meeting point and then … Continue reading →

This morning we arrived in Skagen, Denmark (the “g” is silent, so Skaen). Technically not our first time in Demark as we stopped off at Copenhagan Airport once for a couple of hours! We arrived at 9AM, so after a … Continue reading →

No, we didn’t have a flood, we’re just out of sight of land!. Currently we are somewhere between Newcastle (UK) and the German – Danish border. The weather is still fine at 14C, going up to 18C tomorrow for our … Continue reading →

Well, this time we not only made it to the country of departure, we made it onto the boat/ship/vessel, whatever the correct name is. Last nights hotel didn’t provide breakfast, so our only option was MacDonalds. We were picked up … Continue reading →

After Christening our brand new UK passports, which gave us some cause for concern a couple of months ago (most of you know the story behind that, if you don’t and want to leave a message!) we emerged from terminal … Continue reading →

This is a multi purpose trip, 50 years ago in June I graduated from Air the Traffic Control College , so we decided a reunion was in order, it seemed a waste of an opportunity just to visit the UK, … Continue reading →