Destinations/Ports Series: 2019 Ireland and Iceland Cruise Our last full day of the cruise was actually a port day back in Dublin. We could go ashore and enjoy a tour of Dublin and then head back to the ship to enjoy dinner, an Irish folk music and dancing show, and then spend the night on…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2019 Ireland and Iceland Cruise Cork, Ireland was a last minute addition to our itinerary, and our day was spent journeying inland to the famous Blaney Castle. Our ship docked at the lovely port city of Cobh, but our tour took us inland. We did stop briefly in the city of Cork, but…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2019 Ireland and Iceland Cruise We were treated to a snowfall during our May arrival in Akureyri. Many of the ship’s crew, being from tropical places like Indonesia and The Philippines, had never seen snow in their lives. As we arrived in port, snow was still on the ground, which was quite amazing…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2019 Ireland and Iceland Cruise I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Reykjavik, Iceland. I had heard so many tales about the scenery and imagined what it would be like to live on an island that is so volcanic that geothermal energy is essentially the gross national product. What would it be…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2019 Ireland and Iceland Cruise Our day in Belfast seemed to go from bad to worse upon arrival. First the bad, the ship was subject to tidal flows, which meant that we could not arrive in the Port of Belfast until 10:00am, even though we departed Dublin, which was just a few hours…
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