When you do a journey like this and also the many other cruises we have been on you do appreciate more that the earth is 71% water, most of of it in its natural form you cannot drink. Many ships take in the salted seawater and with their on board desalinisation plant are able to produce water for some the the thousand of guests on board.
Today was another day where we stopped several times to take on stores or unload some cargo. Some guests went on tours to salmon farms and similar, not quite our interest. The weather was rather mixed and its started of well and then went downhill by lunchtime. I have just checked and we have stopped at six ports during the day and night and so the crew on these ships are kept quite busy, I hope kits profitable as we would like to do this cruise again sometime.
So most of day is spent, along with many other guests on board, just watching the Norwegian Coast line slide by and wonder just how good the Caption and his crew are with some many rocks, ports with a small entrance etc , Our hats off to them.
We had a quick zizz, or something like that, in the afternoon and then went to dinner to find that the Scottish couple were not there but a single guy from Devon who was on his 14th Trip up and down this coast but his first time on Havila Cruise as all the other were on the competitor Hurtigruten. This chap was little deaf but also spoke quietly and a bit difficult to understand sometimes but we did understand that when he did start doing these cruises there were three guys but over the years its down to him. After dinner we sat in one of the lounges and watched the snow covered mountains drift by
I was able to speak to my sister who is in Dartmouth today which was good as I may have mentioned I came down with rather a nasty cold the day after we left Bergen and lost my voice which made it difficult to call anybody.
Finally we watched a Netflix series called ‘The Unforgiven’ on the notebook, however the notebook sound is low and so had to turn on the subtitles to understand what is being said. Tomorrow will be our last full day on the ship and so some packing will take place during the day no doubt so as to be ready for the suitcases to be collected.
Ah well that is for today
