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We were off the Orkney Islands at 08:00 and heading NNE at 12 knots with 3m waves and a Force 7 wind with more than 5 hours to go before we head NE to Norway. As seas go, the North Sea is not very old. It was formed by the melt towards the end of

Last night, thanks to the Captain’s decision to avoid a storm we crossed the Greenwich Meridian (0⁰ Longitude) travelling westwards to Edinburgh, something that upon departure we did not expect as we were hoping to go northeast. At 08:00 we docked in Leith, the port of Edinburgh. From the cabin window we could see the

At 8:00 a.m. we were at 54⁰N 2⁰E off the Holderness coast of Yorkshire and northeast of the massive Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm and close to the Dogger Bank. Over breakfast the Captain warned us of Force 9 and upwards winds and high seas, by then we were 150km off Flamborough Head. We experienced

We departed Dover at 4:00 p.m. and slipped past the White Cliffs where we had walked during the morning. When we met the Captain at 5:30 p.m., before dinner, he informed us that because of a storm (not another!) we would be clinging to the UK coast and on Saturday dock in Edinburgh in order

Svalbard (Spitsbergen) is one of Europe’s last wildernesses and home to more polar bears than people. September 14th 2022 We are staying overnight in Dover and will embark tomorrow on the MS Maud in an attempt to get as close to the North Pole without walking over the Arctic ice!

We arrived ahead of schedule just after 6:30 a.m. on a calm sea and an almost silent approach to Dover. Disembarkation was speedy and also ahead of schedule which enabled us to catch the 09:49 train to London and partake of an early lunch, as breakfast was very early. We are now in the Great

At 08:45 one of our team thought there was another hour in bed because of the change to GMT. He was wrong!! We quickly went to breakfast and after breakfast the Captain addressed us again. “We have winds of force 6, temperature of 9ºC and rising air pressure. The weather will get better during the day.

At 08:00 a member of the team was awakened by 3 waves from the ongoing storm rattling underneath the ship as if we were going over speed humps. Just before 9:30 a.m. the Captain addressed us and said, “during the night we had experienced 8m waves and storm force 9 – 10 winds which were

Overnight was stormy beyond measure. In fact things were falling off shelves and above us on Deck 5, things were rolling around in a kitchen. At 09:30 this morning the Captain addressed us all and told us that we had had to leave the Inner Passage during the night and enter the open ocean to

We arrived in Trondheim at 06:00 in horizontal snow but it improved for our walkabout around 9:00 a.m. Very little is open at this time of day, but with the quiet streets come the opportunities to linger and really see what the buildings, for example, are all about. An example of this on the Bryggen,