Of the 254 passengers aboard 114 were American, 39 were British and there were 16 other nationalities amongst them 13 Spanish, nine Irish and many other European nations. 18 nationalities in total
We only had 2 full seas days, so were occupied with shore expeditions on most days
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| Sometimes the weather was good. | Sometimes the weather was bad | Sometimes there was Bingo |
Drinks were usually in the Panorama Lounge
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| Head Chef Pia | Our only Hot Rocks lunch | Afternoon tea, always popular with some of us | Dinner with the Captain |
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Saturday, June 21 at Sea.
Although we gained an extra hour sleep due to the clock change, we were very sleepy when we woke up and went down to breakfast in the restaurant by 8:30 am in order to attend the 9.15 lecture by Alin on the Cod War. But the restaurant seem to be run off its feet and we left at 9:15 without getting my ordered pancake, which still had not arrived: This did not worry me at all as we eat far too much all the time on board.
After the afore-mentioned lecture, which was interesting, especially as we had chatted to Alin at the captains reception the previous night, we retired to the cabin for an hour or so before a meeting with the hotel director at 11:15: I had asked for this two days previously at reception and had not had a reply until after 10 this morning when reception rang me up and asked me for my views on the cruise so far, to which I replied, I had expected a reply about the hotel director. Anyway, both David and I went along for this chat and felt we had projected our views successfully to the hotel director,Csaba, from Hungary
Meanwhile, we had missed Josh‘s lecture on the history of Iceland so we caught up with this on our television during the afternoon. Another pleasant lunch in the restaurant with coffee back in our room which has only been made up during the lunch break: obviously we much prefer that they do the room as early as possible. There was a briefing at 3 pm for the excursions in two days time, and then another at 5:45 pm for tomorrow’s activities. After this we went up to the Panorama Lounge for our pre-dinner cocktail and canapés.
After dinner we had coffee back in the cabin.
Sunday, June 29 at Sea.
A sleepy morning with no interesting lectures to attend. I had got Verena to put bridge on the schedule for 10 am but only one other person arrived at that.
After lunch another siesta and then a talk, by Malcolm on mammals of the sea, which was quite interesting at the time but not memorable. He took the whole hour and then Alin talked on scam salmon farms, a subject to her heart yet she did not convince David that there was any alternative to cheap food for the world.
We returned to the cabin for a cup of coffee and the rest of our Happy Marriage Cake And then we attended Werner’s briefing at 5:30, which told us about what we would be doing on Iona on Monday.
With them went up to the Panorama lounge and had an early cocktail and canopies at 6 pm before returning to the cabin for an hour before going to the restaurant at 8 pm.
For once our old adversary Verena was not occupying the panorama lounge at 9:30 pm but Florandy and Nico were playing and singing old tunes, which was most enjoyable.
