Category Archives: April

Belfast, Ireland

Posted on April 28, 2024 by patmathews

April 28, 2014 This is our third visit to Belfast. One of the benefits of writing a blog is that I can look up what we did last time! This time we booked a tour outside of the city to … Continue reading →

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Glasgow (Greenock), UK

Posted on April 27, 2024 by patmathews

April 27, 2024 Well, there will be no pictures of our fun cocktail party with the trivia team. We had many goodies to eat and lots of wine and champagne but I was having such a good time, I completely … Continue reading →

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Stornoway (Hebrides), UK

Posted on April 26, 2024 by patmathews

April 26, 2024 Sad to realize that we are one week away from the end of our wonderful cruise. We have one more port in Scotland (Glasgow) after today before we head to our remaining ports of Belfast, Dublin, Holyhead, … Continue reading →

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Kirkwall (Orkney Islands), UK

Posted on April 25, 2024 by patmathews

April 25, 2024 Kirkwall is the main settlement of the Northern Isles and capital of Orkney, an archipelago in the north of Scotland. When we woke up this morning, it was 39 degrees so it promised to be a chilly … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh, Scotland

Posted on April 25, 2024 by patmathews

April 24, 2024 As we made our way into the Firth of Forth, the river that takes us into Edinburgh, we saw, as we h ave in many places on this trip, long rows of wind turbines. It seems that … Continue reading →

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Southampton, UK

Posted on April 23, 2024 by patmathews

April 22, 2024 Southampton is located on the south coast of England. It is a vibrant city with a rich history. We have been here several times before, visiting the Isle of Wight and having just a glimpse of the … Continue reading →

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St. Malo, France

Posted on April 23, 2024 by patmathews

April 21, 2024 I was looking forward to St. Malo because I remembered it so well from the trip our son Mark and I took with good friend Jim and his daughter Jamie. We also went to Mont St. Michel … Continue reading →

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Lisbon, Portugal

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 18, 2024 Happy birthday, Adam! Our son does the technical work on this blog and today is his birthday. When I re-read the description of our tour for today, I realized that we would be in Setubal (we have … Continue reading →

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Portimao, Portugal

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 17, 2024 Portimao is a port we have never visited on our trips to Portugal. We selected the Benagil Cathedral Sea Cave tour and just walked to the tour boat from our ship. Ana was our guide and she … Continue reading →

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Santiago de Compostela (Vigo), Spain

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 19, 2024 This post will probably be out of order since the previous two are encountering some type of glitch in photo uploading. I am trying to fix it without totally rewriting the whole thing but so far no … Continue reading →

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