Packing… tricky… A cruise is always a bit awkward to pack for because, if you want to do it right, you need 2 outfits a day. One for the daytime and another for the evening. When going somewhere sunny it’s not a huge problem as shorts and T-shirts don’t take up a lot of room but looking at the long range forecast we’d be lucky if the temperature in Olden would break double figures so jeans and jumpers were definitely the way to go. They don’t roll up and weigh quite a bit. My suitcase was 1kg un

We were woken, rather symbolically, by deck chairs being rearranged on the deck above us. Neither of us had had a particularly good night’s sleep. After recording a short video of the noise in case I needed it for complaining purposes, I went upstairs to find out what the fuck was going on. One of the crew apologised and said they only did it once a week so we’ll see if that is the case or if he was just saying anything to make me go away. As dinner was a bit shit the previous night we decided t

Our arrival time in Stavanger was scheduled for 9am. Before this you sail along the Norwegian coastline. We got to see a fair bit of this because at 6:15 our cabin phone rang and it was a member of staff who ‘allegedly’ dialled the wrong number. It was either that or the boyfriend of the waitress I got in to trouble last night. I would have been very annoyed if I hadn’t already been up for over an hour and was in the process of making Lyn a cup of tea. We had breakfast in Horizon again as it’s j

I woke up about 5 and went to get a coffee and walked straight into an amazing view and predawn glow. During the night the ship had entered the fjord system on the way to Olden. I left it an hour before deciding to wake Lyn as I thought she’d be a bit miffed to miss it. As Lyn lay in the bed with a fresh cup of tea, watching the beautiful scenery pass by so close you could almost touch it she said ‘We shouldn’t be here. I can see why they want to ban cruise ships.’ Ever practical she added ‘In f

Something I’ve noticed about Norway is that no matter where we’ve been, from a glacier in the mountains to sailing down a fjord on a tower block sized ship my phone signal has been a constant 5G. At home I can barely get a phone signal in my house and when I do its probably 3G. There were supposed to be some drive-bye’s of some ‘special’ fjords on our way to Flam but they were late at night and so a bit pointless. We weren’t sure what we were going to do in Flam. Lyn had read some not very compl

I mentioned in an earlier post that you go to Northern Europe for the scenery and Southern Europe for the culture (and the scenery as well to be honest). As we pulled in to Haugesund, in the rain and the ship moored outside a multi-storey car park I couldn’t see a lot of great scenery. The ‘herring town’ as it’s known to its friends and probably its enemies was the only stop on this holiday that I’ve not vaguely heard of. I looked at the forecast and it was going to be rainy all day but as this