Month: August 2016

The last day on a cruise is always a strange day with packing to be completed, photographs to be picked up and goodbyes to be said. A good time to reflect on the cruise just completed.

The passengers on a

When we last visited Bergen we were told that on four out of every five days it would be raining, today must have been that fifth day. Although the sky was overcast and a mist covered the top of the

We departed Alesund in the early hours of the morning to make the short trip to Geiranger. Following the meandering Geirangerfjord, the ship slowly made it’s way past waterfalls and towering mountain peaks. It is no wonder that this part

Alesund, the largest town on Norway’s North-West coast and the country’s leading fishing town was today’s port of call. The town is built on three islands linked together by a series of bridges and tunnels.The Mount Askla viewpoint dominates the

The city of Stavanger with a population of around 115,000 is known as the oil capital of Norway since the discovery of the black stuff off the coast in the 1960’s. Prior to the oil boom, Stavanger was the canning