World Tour 2024: Day 123 & 124 - CDG-DFW-HNL.

[ArtificialStupidity]

A few hours after departure, the Captain makes an announcement warning us about high winds, rough seas, and a slippery deck. The spray coming off the bow of the ship reaches us on the 12th deck.

Be safe Comrade!

[Comrade Renski]

Day 106 - Isafjordur,...no, Reykjavik(?)

We endure a rough night on the high seas. We wake up, it's semi-foggy. I spot the harbor pilot arriving from an icy deck 14. The tug looks like a bobbing toy.


The harbor pilot spins the ship 180 and backs her in.


I check out the runway proximity to the cliff, ship and dock (right) and imagine flying in and out of this fjord.


It's very cold and windy. I warm up in my cabin and get ready for today's excursion. I take a few moments to read up on the airport. Find smoe interesting tidbits, then...


...I notice we're moving. I race to the back and see that we are leaving. What The Fjord!? Confused to say the least. No comment from the Captain.


I go back to my room and lean my head over the railing to find the harbor pilot boarding the tug and depart.


Thirty minutes later the Captain announces that a severe weather line is approaching, a squall line, and deemed this port of call unsafe. We are full speed in exit. Another cruise ship that was to port with us aborts before entering.


We hit gale and near gale force winds. It's the rockiest ride we've encountered yet.


We endure hours of this but finally arrive in the calm waters of Reykjavik.




It's 9:30 pm. Sunset. Clear. Hope to see smoe northern lights.

[TRx]

Very cool pics... looks cold though.

[surfinx]

Any lights?

[TRx]

Any lights?

paradise by the dashboard lights

[walmann]

Any lights?

paradís by the dashboard lights

FIBOGL

[PerryHall]

FIBOGL

[MacGyver]

Even without the Northern Lights the skies must have been gorgeous without the light pollution.

I bet you have noticed it many times, while at sea.

Think about the population who has never been out of a city, never camped in the middle of nowhere, never seeing the stars.

[BigMark]

Or never seen the milky way, I see shooting stars here all the time.

[PhillyJoe]

Great pictures and journey.

Not sure if puffin is worth trying, but it's only on the menu in Iceland.

[TRx]

It's actually amazing the diversity of places you've visited so far on your trip. The geography, climate, culture, cuisine. Memories of a lifetime for sure. You used to fly over all that stuff and now you're seeing it from the ground. Cool stuff.

[ArtificialStupidity]

Great pictures and journey.

Not sure if puffin is worth trying, but it's only on the menu in Iceland.

Nah. Leave them be.

[TRx]

Soaked in salt water, smoked with wood chips and dried sheep dung, then boiled for two hours in a sweet malt beverage before being refrigerated and finally served, bone-in and cold, alongside a packet of butter, smoked puffin tastes briny and a bit fishy and musky-sweet in the manner of mesquite barbecue.

Nothing like dried sheep dung to bring out the flavor eh?

[PerryHall]

Soaked in salt water, smoked with wood chips and dried sheep dung, then boiled for two hours in a sweet malt beverage before being refrigerated and finally served, bone-in and cold, alongside a packet of butter, smoked puffin tastes briny and a bit fishy and musky-sweet in the manner of mesquite barbecue.

Nothing like dried sheep dung to bring out the flavor eh?

Speaking of dried sheep dung, where's HLT to give this his usual F-?

[ArtificialStupidity]

Soaked in salt water, smoked with wood chips and dried sheep dung, then boiled for two hours in a sweet malt beverage before being refrigerated and finally served, bone-in and cold, alongside a packet of butter, smoked puffin tastes briny and a bit fishy and musky-sweet in the manner of mesquite barbecue.

Nothing like dried sheep dung to bring out the flavor eh?

And no Renski in nearly 72 hours.

[MacCrimmon]

Looks like he's now heading to Belfast ... hopefully the IRA doesn't storm the ship !!!

[ArtificialStupidity]

Hoping for pictures of Penny Lane.

[MacCrimmon]

Hoping for pictures of Penny Lane.

Here ya go; 1605 Penny Lane, Schaumburg, IL

I worked at this location for about 3 years in the late 1990s.

[ArtificialStupidity]

Cruise terminates on Sunday in Southhampton.

Hope the old boy is ok.

[BigMark]

He's fine you fuddernutter drama queen, less pantie liners and more cruise liners!