Puffins,Coos and Kelpies oh my! :16 day , photo travelogue on the Caribbean Princess to the UK, Ireland, and Iceland 7-12-24

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Shore excursions desk

 

 

 

 Crown Grill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, heatherb1958 said:

@scubacruiserx2 - thank you for your kind  offer re the patters. We have been to all the ports before except the Greenland calls so are familiar with Isafjordur . Good to hear you docked in Nanortalik,  I have the RIB tour booked for that day  . We have UK friends onboard with you so have been getting some updates through them when they have WIFI 😆 🤣.  

 

 

 @heatherb1958 You are welcome . We are at home currently so the link that I showed yesterday is the current cruise . Cruisemapper currently shows them in Nanotalk today until 1800 GMT , before returning to Southampton on the 13th . We are glad that they made it as we did have to miss a port on our cruise . Their current position is here .

https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9215490

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23 minutes ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

 

 @heatherb1958 You are welcome . We are at home currently so the link that I showed yesterday is the current cruise . Cruisemapper currently shows them in Nanotalk today until 1800 GMT , before returning to Southampton on the 13th . We are glad that they made it as we did have to miss a port on our cruise . Their current position is here .

https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9215490

 

 

Oops,  my mistake 😆.  Didn’t look at the date , saw 16 days and thought you were onboard now . 

Still enjoying your post cruise pics 😆 🤣.  

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1 hour ago, heatherb1958 said:

 

 

Oops,  my mistake 😆.  Didn’t look at the date , saw 16 days and thought you were onboard now . 

Still enjoying your post cruise pics 😆 🤣.  

 

 Thanks , we wish that we were on board . We are meeting with our oldest grandsons for breakfast and to plan our next cruise with them , wish will be in November with the whole family - on a different cruise line .

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 After the photo walk I woke The Princess up and we decided to try out the Omelette Station for breakfast . After that was the Bible study and a 1100 meeting about the Chef's Table later that evening .

 

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 Our printer wasn't working well so we ordered a new one and this was our first print .

 

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 The Chef's Table began with a fitting for lab coats and a good hand washing .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was great that they had a table instead of jugging a camera , food and a drink at the same time , like before .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The great wall of food . Photos of how it should look on the entire voyage

 

 

 

 

 

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 Princess did change the dates on our Chef's Table to a day later and we had 14 people at a big , long table , instead of the usual 10 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 The first dessert looked like a lemon - but it wasn't .

 

 

 

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 A small proper kettle in the UK . We wished that all ships would allow these .

 

 

 

 Continuing our tour still on Deck 6 with the Suites dining in the Coral Dining Room

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Soft Corals and a sea fan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Promenade Deck - Deck 7

 

Beginning at the entrance to the the Princess Theatre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  The Casino was next after the theatre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My wife like to play this game to stimulate her mind - but not with her money . The only sign of passenger life that I saw at this time in the morning was ladies feeding the machines . For me , I remember a verse from the old song by the Guess Who  Colored lights can hypnotize , Sparkle someone else's eyes .
 

 

 

 

 My new SIL likes to gamble but the bug has never bit us . However , we did let our oldest grandson play a similar game to this one below when he was about 7 on a Carnival Cruise . He was trying to win a set Beats headphones that were all the rage . And  darned if he didn't grab them in the claw and dropped them into the drawer . The drawer wouldn't open all the way and so we went and got the man that worked there . He refused to open the stuck drawer and told us that someone else had just won some on the last cruise . We told him that didn't matter to what was happening Now . When he still refused I told my grandson that it's the reason of why we don't gamble . Even if you win a game of chance or skill , people will still steal it from you . We found some new cruise lines after that .

 

 

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 The shops are on this level and have expanded into the Atrium area

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't notice this in the morning but that night was a Formal Night but didn't bring dress apparel but cold weather gear instead . We were going to eat casual at the buffet until we something that we liked at the Coral . We did want to take photos at the Captain's Champagne and the area was mobbed with access being blocked by stuff for sale and the photo backdrops .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The waterfall is no longer where you pour into the top glass and it cascades . Rather it is poured to the side with the angle of the photographer making it look as if it is still a cascade .

 

 

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 Explorers Bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 The Wheelhouse Bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabatini's

 

 

 

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The Photo Studio

 

 

 

Club Fusion

 

 

 

 

 

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I seriously don't understand why Princess continues with the Champagne waterfall, should have gone long ago like like the Midnight Gala buffet and chocolate buffet on other lines . 

We renewed our Silver anniversary vows on Golden Princess, been married 45 years now, at least on that cruise crew were walking around with free glasses of bubbles, not any more , it is all just a waste for a photo opportunity sadly.

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42 minutes ago, heatherb1958 said:

I seriously don't understand why Princess continues with the Champagne waterfall, should have gone long ago like like the Midnight Gala buffet and chocolate buffet on other lines . 

We renewed our Silver anniversary vows on Golden Princess, been married 45 years now, at least on that cruise crew were walking around with free glasses of bubbles, not any more , it is all just a waste for a photo opportunity sadly.

 

  Congratulations on your 45th !  We're sorry that we can't buy you bubbly on the thread but how about a balloon drop ?

 

 

 

 

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 The Promenade was closed so I decided to pop up on the deck like a Whack a Mole . But first a few awards , the ship's officers and a Sea Cow . Scanning the horizon for Iceland .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  The Buffet

 

 

 

 

 

This is how I used to be before I met my wife

 

 

 

Steamers is on one side and Planks on the other

 

 

 

And the Omelette Station is in between

 

 

 

 

 And the pool and the Outrigger Bar was out back . It was now Sunrise at 0351 and the sun stayed up 19 hours and 22 minutes .

 

 

 

 

 

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 We appeared to have a Caribbean like sunrise at sea as we sailed into Iceland .

 

 

 

 

 

As we passed Bird Island we had hoped to see Puffins but we didn't and saw this boat instead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 We had tried to enlist others to do a private tour to Diamond Beach in the South of Iceland , but to no avail . We had spoken to Sultan with Iceland Paradise who agreed to take the long road there . We were suppose to meet at 0800 . The view of the church from the port

 

 

 

 We were in port from 0800 - 2200 but Princess wanted back on the ship at 2130 . There was quite a line to get off the ship .

 

 

 

 We finally made the Jail Break at 0815 and asked a man where to wait for private guides .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After about 15 minutes we asked the nice man on the shore to call our guide for us . He told us that he was stuck in traffic . We spied a WC across the street and washed our hands .

 

 

 

We did call again but it was about 0915 before we left the port and we were off .

 

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 Sultan is married to a lady from Iceland and he was determined to make up time after we hit the open road by passing a lot . These photos we're shot while riding .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An out the window shot of a turf house under the mountain from a still car

 

 

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 Vik was about 2 and a half hours away where we stopped for lunch .We didn't have time to go up to the church as we had a bite and a bathroom break before heading East .

 

 

 

 The view of Vik from the church later 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A drone  launch

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 A couple of pocket camera shots and video clips as we close in on the largest glacier in Europe