Sunday 10th September-A morning in Eidfjord

The Ship arrived in Eidjfjord overnight after sailing through Lysefjiord and then up through the islands, which we could not see as it was dark, and finally arriving at about 0730 which for those anxious travelers with tours meant an early start to the day. For us it meant a late'ish breakfast, they close at 10.00 and then we did some walking around the very small town with one of everything viz Hotel, Café, Tourist shop and a Loo plus a few houses dotted around.
The Fjords are really quite beautiful with lots of inlets etc. , the river that runs from the hills down in to the Fjord is well known for its salmon fishing which you could do as a tour but extremely expensive. This tour includes the possibility to eat you own catch for lunch but as the boat has to sale at 13.30 its pushing it a bit.

So having walked around the town, Jennifer wanted a longer walk so of she went whilst Noel stayed behind and watched the world go by. We re-joined the ship and had a sandwich lunch as we sailed off down to the Fjord and now we are heading for Flam where you can take the famous railway, again at extra cost but as we have already been on this train some years ago we decided to forgo this trip. For the rest of the afternoon we let the scenery slip by as we slowly passed by mountain villages and lakes but no big towns. There was in places still snow on the high outcrops.
In the evening Noel loaded his photos from his camera on the PC and then found they had all been deleted, all 47 of them including video, not sure why this happened but it is very annoying as I now don't have any photos of the first part of the trip which is extremely annoying. In addition my little computer mouse has packed up so times are tough in the technical departments at the moment.
In the evening it was Formal night so we put on our finest and as we had booked at the ‘Grill’ for a good steak we were quite surprised that perhaps only about 40% of the guests bothered to dress up which was quite unusual really. The dinner was very good the steak, we both had Rib Eye was very tasty and tender and together with a glass or two of Merlot it went down a treat. We thought about testing out the evening show and already thirty minutes before it was due to start there were several hundred people waiting so we gave up on that idea and went to a lounge bar for another glass of wine. The Fred Olsen rules about an inclusive drinks cost is that is strangely does not include tea or bitter lemon, you can drink yourself silly with wine, beer or spirits ,all included, but for a cup of tea you have to pay £2.00 , bloody silly really.
We went up to bed and had a quick look at the news from Florida and if it carries on this way there is a strong chance we will have to cancel our trip at the end of the year  as based on what happened to the Islands there may not be an infrastructure left, we shall what happens