September 16,17,18, 2019 Sea day and health days

We are in Invergordon, Scotland, and Ed has come down with a wee bit of a cold. We were scheduled to take a bus to Inverness and spend the day on our own, but on mutual decision we decided to take a health day. It is raining, and about 50 F so best to skip this tour and be healthy for Normandy! 

So while he sleeps I will try to catch you up. On the 16th we were in Greennock (Glasgow), we had nothing seceded so stayed on the ship and we were able to see the Scotich show put on by the local people. It was wonderful and we were really happy we didn’t have a tour, as you miss things like that. There’s another one today at four this afternoon, I will try to see, but I’m not sue Ed will be upto it. Had we been on our tour, we would have missed it. 

The 17th was a sea day, and the Captains party and a very interesting day it was. We started the day with breakfast in our special dinning room for the first time. It is only open on sea days, it was a worthwhiled thind to do, it was very good. The food on the ship has been very good for the most part. I don’t expect any restaurant to be perfect every time. 

Then later I had a hair appointment and the stylist I had, Vladimir Aralics, was very good, and he didn’t try to sell me anything, and this was also the case, a few days ago when I had a manicure. Not like the past, when that was a big grip, the hard sell for products, refreshing. 

So we then had the captains party and they announced the most traveled, 1,657 days, amazing. Then on to dinner, of escargot, some of the best we have ever had! And lobster tails, and lobster thurmado, the lobster thourmado was divine, the tail, was over cooked. 

So that brings us to today our health day, and hopefully we can take the shuttle into Edinburgh tomorrow and walk around a bit, but if not we have a sea day the next day and then our BIG day Le Havre, France and Normandy! Say a little prayer, as it is scheduled to rain that day, and I sure hope it doesn’t. 

September 15th 2019, Belfast, North Ireland

Good morning,

Well today is really the 16th as I write this, but yesterday was another one of those long tour days we booked, we might learn, but I’m not sure. So I will start with yesterday. Our tour started early,,,,,,,,,,,,, again we boarded from the elevators instead of the stairs, but this time I figured the code, we went on our oun to fix the bus, much easier. We booked the  tour to the Giants Causeway, with a few stops in between. We drove through the Antrim Coast, it is one of north Ireland’s most beautiful scenic coast line routes, with breathtaking landscapes the Carrick-a-Rede Bridge. This drive was absolutely beautiful and viewing the bridge from afar was as close as I would want to get. People used to use it in days gone by to get from the mainland to the tiny island of Carrickarede. It spans 66 ft and is 98 ft above the rocks below.  The bridge is open all year round subject to weather and people may cross it for free.

There were many beautiful vistas on this drive,

The Giants Causeway was the next stop, and that was impressive, and would have been more so had we been of the age to climb around the stones, youngwe are not. But I’m glad we saw it. 

Next stop was lunch, and it was a very good one, except they served Kiew twice, who would have expected kiew, in Northern Ireland. LOL, but they were very accommodating and brought me replacements both times. Ed enjoyed the pablova. 

Then it was on to the Dunluce Castle for a photo shoot. The Dunluce Castle is now-ruined. It was built in 1200 by the second Eral of Ulster, Richard de Burgh on the site of an earlier fort dating back to the Vickings. 

All and all it was a good, but long, our bus driver was once again very good, but our guide left something to be desired, she was very manatone and not very enthusiastic, and they could have skipped the drive by of the museum of the Game Of Thorns and the Titanic at the end. 

We got back in time to have a light dinner of Mussels. 

Today we are in Greenock, and we are staying on the ship, I will do a post later as we have some interesting things to see.