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I got the call today around noon, just as I was about to put the luggage labels on our packed cases so, obviously, very disappointed but at least we hadn’t travelled to Liverpool like Chanbre. I hope you enjoy your stay in the city.

We accepted the FO offer of rebooking on any cruise up to 8 days long without penalty so now have the same cabin on the July 29th sailing. I was looking forward to seeing the Faroe Islands but this 8 day cruise takes us the Scilly Isles and that is a new destination for us so a bit of a silver lining!

Fingers crossed for you

Thank you for posting a very comprehensive, interesting and useful review. We have sailed on Marcella/Thomson ships several times and have enjoyed the product. It seems as if the cruise line is well prepared for these sailings. We are doing a 5 day Fred Olsen cruise, starting on Saturday and expect the 'covid' experience to be very similar.

The one thing that you didn’t say was what your friends thought of the experience! 
Thank you again.

I hate to be the bringer of, potentially, bad news because we are supposed to be on Roald Amundsen's sister ship, the Fridtjof Nansen, on October 26th from Lima and it looks highly unlikely that our ship will sail this cruise.

Below I have pasted the information that is on the Hurtigruten web site regarding cancelled cruises which shows that the cruise before ours is cancelled as is the one before yours. The dates are given in the European style….day, month, year.

We are preparing ourselves for the cancellation which will be a huge disappointment as we are supposed to be doing a pre-cruise tour to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. Also, this will be the third time this trip has been cancelled…..2019 we should have sailed a similar itinerary on Roald Amundsen but it was cancelled 5 days before we should have boarded because the ship had to go into dry dock for some major engine repairs and, of course, last year's was a COVID cancellation.

We are hoping to be able to transfer to 2022 as it is a trip we really want to do!

Cancelled cruises 

wow Aulanis, thank you for listing all the ports. It’s amazing to see how many we 'visited' on our world cruise!

We didn't quite equal Phileas Fogg as it has taken us 86 days to do our circumnavigation of the world but we have visited so many more amazing places and seen so many wonderful and inspiring sights.

As we disembark in Southampton today, I would like to say thank you again to Gettingwarmer for starting the thread and to all the posters who have supported the journey. It has given me a lot of pleasure charting our progress and scouring our photographs to find appropriate pictures. 

All that is left to say is Bon Voyage and happy cruising

Isabel 🥰  

Portland....

Weymouth....

Today we reach the last ports of our Grand Around the Word Voyage before we dock for the final time in Southampton tomorrow. We  are visiting the ports on the western mainland of Wales and England.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Gettingwarmer for instigating and guiding this epic journey for the first half of the cruise. Thank you also to all the passengers who have contributed so many amazing photographs, interesting anecdotes and encouraging comments which have helped to make this thread so uplifting in these unusual times.

I wish you all a successful return to cruising and many more years of travelling our beautiful world.

 Liverpool...

Holyhead and Anglesey

South Stack, Anglesey...

Menai Straights and Plas Newydd House

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Cobh...

Cork....

Blarney Castle....

It was so interesting to see th pictures of Tilbury, Edinburgh, Loch Ness and the Orkneys and Shetlands. I think that sometimes we don't appreciate the variety of our own country.

Tomorrow is our last cruise day of this Epic Voyage Around the World  as we sail back across the Irish Sea to the west coast of mainland Britain with the ports of Liverpool,  Holyhead, Bristol, Fowey and Portland.

We haven't been to Greenock or Belfast so I';m looking forward to seen photos of those areas. We were in Dublin and Cobh following a Transatlantic crossing in 2018.

Dublin...

the Wicklow Mountains.....

Glendalough and St. Kevin's Monastery 

We reach home territory today as we begin the last leg of our journey around the world with easterly ports in Britain. Tomorrow we continue our circumnavigation by visiting Greenock, Belfast, Dublin and Cobh.

We have sailed out of Dover in 2006 as we headed to the Baltic and ended a cruise from South Africa in Dover in 2015 but I don't have many pictures. 

Dover ....

My pictures of Edinburgh are from a weekend visit in 1998 which was a wonderful surprise organised by my DH for my 50th birthday...

My last pictures for this part of the cruise are from a land tour of Scotland in 2005 when we passed through Inverness and stopped at Loch Ness. I'm hoping some of you have pictures of the Orkneys and Shetland Islands as these are also on our 'to do' list.....

More lovely photographs of Holland and Belgium which conjure up happy memories of times spent there in the early 70s when we were newly married and before children!.

I'm staying on board for the next few days as we head across the Channel to start our 'Round the British Isles' leg of this epic voyage. Tomorrow we head to Dover and then up the East coast to places like Tilbury, Felixstowe, Hull , Newcastle. Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and the Orkney and Shetland Isles.....tasters for the new 'Staycation'  cruises.

Tomorrow we reach Zeebrugge. 

My Amsterdam pictures date from 1972. It was our first holiday abroad together  and we stayed in a caravan. We took more pictures of ourselves than we did of the scenery....we look so young!! We really do need to go back to revisit this beautiful city. 

My bucket list is growing by the day (Riga, Travemunde, Rostock etc,,,)  so thank you all for posting such interesting and intriguing pictures.

Today we visit Copenhagen and the Kiel Canal and tomorrow we dock in Dutch ports - Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Amsterdam...

We did the transit of the Kiel Canal on Norwegian Dream which was the largest cruise ship that could sail the canal because it could 'dislocate' its funnel and drop it down the side of the stack to enable the ship to pass under the bridges.....

Tallinn in the snow looked like a fairy-tale. the old town really is magical at all times though.

Today we sail along the southern coast of the Baltic and tomorrow we reach Copenhagen and do a transit of the Kiel Canal.

I only have a few pictures of Warnemunde from that area...

More wonderful pictures again so thank you posters.

Tomorrow  we sail along the southern coast of the Baltic with visits to Riga, Gdansk, Rostock , Warnemunde etc.....

The old town of Tallinn doesn't seem to have changed much from 2006 when we visited....

Many happy memories of our distant past visit to St. Petersburg. The pictures of the Russian entertainment brought back a scary experience I had. At the end of the meal the passengers went to the toilets. I was last in the queue and as I locked the door the whole handle mechanism came off in my hand. I shouted just as the door into the passageway closed so no-one heard me. I tried everything to try to open the door but nothing worked. Eventually a very disgruntled tour guide came in demanding to know why I was taking so long as the bus would leave without me. She was very apologetic when she realised my predicament and I was rescued shortly after....thank goodness.

The post about the Americans who didn’t appreciate the food reminded me of an incident in the dining room on an American ship. My DH and I were put on a table for 4 with an American couple and we chatted very amicably until the food arrived. As we started eating the lady suddenly shouted at us that we were disgusting and we should know better than to eat while holding a knife in one hand. Hadn’t we been taught proper table manners by our parents. She then grabbed her husband’s arm and they stormed out of the dining room muttering about how the class of passengers was not what it used to be!
We were speechless but realised that Americans do that very clumsy manoeuvre where they stab the food with their fork, hack it into pieces with their knife which they then put down before they transfer their fork to their knife hand to shovel their food into their mouth.....cultural differences!!!!!

The Winter Palace

The Hermitage Museum

Good morning fellow cruisers and happy vaxing Bee-ess. Fabulous pictures again  which make my few pre-digital ones seem a bit paltry. 

To create space between my pictures, I upload my pictures from my PC and I space my photos by clicking the + sign on all my chosen files to put them in the post first. I then scroll back to the first photograph and click my cursor at the bottom of that picture. I then click twice on the enter key to create the space and repeat this action on all the pictures.

I also had a problem with pictures posting sideways. These were scanned old photographs and I seem to have cured the problem by editing the pictures slightly on the PC 'pictures programme'. I either crop the picture slightly or straighten it a little bit and then save the alterations. When I post the pictures after that they appear correctly positioned.

Tomorrow we continue through the Baltic  Sea with  a stop in Tallinn.

St Petersburg 2006...

Wow Aulanis, what amazing photos of Helsinki. The more I see of this area, the more I realise that we need to revisit the Baltic ports so my 'bucket list' grows even longer!

Tomorrow we sail into St Petersburg.

Helsinki 2006....

Hello fellow cruisers and welcome back to some of you. Thank you for the pictures of Norway. Oslo looks to be a lovely city so I have added it to our bucket list. Bee-ess has beaten me to Stockholm today with lots of stunning pictures. Our Baltic cruise was in 2006 BD (before digital) so I don't have many pictures.

We dock in Helsinki tomorrow but, in the meantime, here are my few photos from Stockholm. The sail-in/out was fabulous....

Stavanger in the Winter....

Lyse Fjord and Pulpit Rock....

I hope someone will post pictures of Oslo as we haven't had the opportunity to visit yet.

Stavanger in the summer

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More wonderful photos again and great to see old friends returning.

Today we reach the ports of southern Norway before we head east into the Baltic Sea for our first port which is Stockholm,....I did say we are taking a circuitous route back to Blighty!!!

Bergen....

The Fjords.....

Olden...

Flam....