It’s a dark and stormy night. Temperature 28 degrees , plus a windchill from a 30 to 40 mile an hour wind. Snow is due anytime now. We are docked early in Alesund, Norway. We weren’t supposed to arrive until tomorrow morning, but the captain put the pedal to the metal so to speak because there’s a storm coming in from Iceland and Greenland heading down the North Sea. He didn’t think we could manage to dock in the kind of conditions that are expected with this storm.
Some of you have noticed that I haven’t really been doing a blog this trip, but enough have made a comment that I figure I need to come on here a time or two and let you know what’s up.
We flew from Albuquerque to Houston and then on to London on a week ago. The weather in London was pretty nice, we had a few showers here and there but for the most part we had a little bit of blue sky and sunshine at least once or twice a day.
We hit a few museums that we hadn’t given enough justice to the first time, plus it gave us a nice cozy place to be when the winds and the rain did arrive. We stayed in a nice little bed-and-breakfast near Victoria station, which gave us easy access to restaurants and groceries, as well as a lot of public transportation options. Third floor walk up, but go new knees!
Plus, we had tickets to HAMILTON on Thursday and very much enjoyed the production. Especially when the English audience laughed at the right parts at the portrayal of King George.
Saturday we took a coach down to Southampton, and boarded the cruise ship. In the next two days we have met up with the folks from the Cruise Critic Roll Call, held a meet and greet with the Captain and his staff, a group luncheon today and then a slot tournament where we won all our money back. We even ran into a lady we hung with on the Singapore to Rome trip last March.
It’s safe to say our time onboard has been loads of fun and quite full. The weather forecast: not so much. This is the first time Princess has done this itinerary at this time of year, so it’s a bit of a gamble as to how successful we will be. This time last year the weather was clear and there had been no snow. This year, same timeframe, snow is in the forecast for every day. It just is going to depend on when the snow shows.
Anyway, we docked in rain, ate dinner and ventured out into town. Things close up pretty early around here, 8 pm, and that’s the 7-11 and Burger King. The rain stopped, but the wind has really picked up, so we did not go far into town this evening. Keep your fingers crossed for better weather in the morning.
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