Terrafirma Travels

2 Feb: A lot of pitching in the night. Up at 0645 and breakfast at 0730 as usual, though today Iain and Liz joined us. Finished packing and put bulging cases in corridor, from where they were whisked into the bowels ready for offloading. Said goodbye to our lovely little cabin. We set up camp in the lecture lounge, ready for Laura's last talk. It's a pity the windows are so dirty. This and running out of decaf coffee, and having no decaf tea, are the only constructive suggestions we can give in the survey to come. Arrival into beautiful Bergen, disembarking, bus to airport, bag drop, security all very smooth. Flight home also smooth, grateful to fall into Premier Inn. 

1 Feb: Docked Trondheim 0630-0930. Prompt to brekker, thinking we'd have a walk. It was dark and slushy and it's 25 mins to exit the port so changed our minds. Bit of reading and packing instead, before the Gathering at 11 which had disembarking info as well as usual routing stuff. Laura said how lucky we'd been with the weather, just 3 ports skipped due to F9 winds on day 3 but no big waves. The next trip is forecast high winds all the time. We slipped Laura a half bottle of brandy because we couldn't drink it all and couldn't take it home.  Beautiful weather today, and suddenly the lower hills are green, not white. The view from the panorama lounge on deck 7 is splendid as always. Surprisingly few people come up here. After a large lunch, as usual, we gave the Coastal Kitchen event a swerve - didn't feel the need to see how to gut a large salmon and then eat it raw. Lots of reading and gazing. Docked in Kristiansund 10 mins early which just gave us enough time...