It was a beautiful day in Bergen. Not too cold, Not too hot, High thin clouds and light breezes made for a perfect day to … go for a bus ride. After one of those great European hotel breakfasts (You name it, they’ve got it, if you can find it.) we redied ourselves for a […]
This morning we docked in Reykjavík.I say ‘morning’ even though it was only 5:00 am. (I’d say 0-dark:30 but it was actually daylight out.)We hurried thru our ablutions and headed to the buffet (which opened early today). Surprise of the morning – the shift supervisor in the buffet looked vaguely familiar.We had a fun catching
Heimaey, Westman Islands, Iceland; Blue Sky, Hi 55 Sunrise 5:30, Sunset 9:40 The Westman Islands are an archipelago of islands off the south coast of Iceland. They got their name when a group of Irish slaves (westmen) murdered a chieftain who had been abusing them. They fled to these islands where the chieftain’s warriors hunted
Heimaey, Westman Islands, IcelandBlue Sky, Hi 55Sunrise 5:30, Sunset 9:40 PUFFINS! There’s lots to say about our visit to Heimaey,but PUFFINS! So here’s this and I’ll tell you more laterPlus, this is ‘packing evening’ so I don’t have extra time. And just ’cause it’s cute to see them landing and taking off… Now back to
Djúpivogur, IcelandCloudy, Hi 48Sunrise 4:44, Sunset 9:16 It was an early morning with a 9:15 tour call.So we were up, breakfasted, and on the tender at the appointed hour. The excursion was a light-weight bus tour of the town and the area.Djúpivogur is another town next to a fjord – this time at the mouth
Seyðisfjörður, IcelandCloudy, Windy, Hi 57\3Sunrise 4:37, Sunset 9:21 It sits at the head of a fjord and even though it only has a population of ~600 it’s significant that it is the Iceland stop for a ferry service that runs a circuit between Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. We docked at noonish so this
Akureyri, IcelandCloudy, Occasional Fog, Occasional Rain, Hi 57Sunrise 4:45, Sunset 9:47 Today was scheduled to be a long active day so we set the alarm for 7:00, got up, and went to breakfast. We returned to the room to make final wardrobe choices and prepared to leave the ship at 8:15 to be comfortably on
Isafjordur, IcelandCloudy, Bright Sun, Hi 55Sunrise 4:58, Sunset 10:16 Thank heavens for blackout curtains. Isafjordur is known as ‘the capital of the West Fjords’ – that sticky-out peninsula on the northwest of the island. Fun fact, there are more arctic foxes than humans in the West Fjords (at lest that’s what our guide said). We
Sea day #4 Blue Sky, Noon Temp 51 Sunrise 4:23, Sunset 8:43 This morning found us out in the Irminger sea somewhere between Greenland and Iceland.It was a typical sea day (except that since we lost another hour last night we decided to set our alarm a little later and instead of exercising we did
As mentioned our afternoon was spent transiting the Prince Christian Sound This narrow winding passage at the very tip of Greenland is much like an upen-ended fjord with high steep sides, high glaciers, and a few icebergs. Here are some photos we took along the way. To that’s the sound.It was an great afternoon with