We drove all the way up to Edinburgh just to find out that the Jacobite train would not be running the next day.  We were really bummed out, but the tickets are sold out and so are the tours until after we leave.  We decided to just head back to Chester and see some castles and Rosalyn Chapel on the way. My husband wanted to see the … Continue reading England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland: Drive back to Chester

Our first stop was Lancaster Castle.  We quickly learned that it was used as a prison from the 1200s to 2011.  We took the tour, which cost 2.50 pounds per person.  (There was a family discount rate.) The tour was only a half an hour and you get to enter two sections of the prison.  The tour guide had a quirky way of telling us its history and I … Continue reading England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland: Drive to Edinburgh

We thought it would be a good idea to disembark with the last group of people, but it was a madhouse in the terminal. It took a little under an hour to get a taxi and the line was crazy.  The women in front of us were acting as the line police, which I loved.  We got in the taxi and it turned out to be the … Continue reading Copenhagen

Today we purchased an excursion from the cruise ship to Gammel Estrup or The Green Museum and Rosenholm Castle. We left the port a little after 11 and arrived at the Green Museum (which is the house and the whole area) a little before noon.  Gammel Estrup is a manor house that you can tour and it also has a national museum with exhibitions on hunting, … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Aarhus, Denmark

This city is not to be confused with Kristiansund, which is in northern Norway.  We are now in southern Norway. We disembarked from the ship around 10am. We walked by the performing arts center, which our port profile onboard likened to a building with troll hair.  I liked it.   We walked over by a boat museum, but we just wanted to check out the wooden boats in … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Kristiansand

I was really excited about our stop here because there was a recreation of a Viking village that I really wanted to see.  It was a beautiful day with a cloudless sky.  The Viking village was only open to people who were on a tour.  There were no tours available to go. I had a feeling I would be thwarted in seeing this village.  We decided to take a … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Haugesund and Stavanger

We didn’t leave the ship until around 10:45 this morning to venture into Bergen.  My husband decided to turn on his cell service today since we were going to be in a big city and I’m glad he did.  We used it several times while walking around the city.   The first destination was the fish market or torget (as it is called here).  We wandered through the stalls … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Bergen

We woke up earlier than usual because they had to perform water maintenance in our room.  We decided to check out the town early, come back to the ship for lunch, and then go back into town to board the train.   The town is very small.  They said that only about 300 people live there.  There were quite a few souvenir shops to check out as well as … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Flam

I would love to tell you all kinds of wonderful stories about our stop in Molde, but I don’t have any.  It was cloudy and cool and we walked around the town for about an hour.  We could have ventured into a museum, but we didn’t.  I did look around a cool bookstore and we window-shopped, but there was not a lot to do there. They have a … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Molde and Alesund

We woke up early to watch our entrance into Eidfjord. It was foggy and a little cloudy, but it was still unbelievably beautiful. After we disembarked, we went straight to the tourist office. The line was out the door. They had free wifi so a lot of people were also standing around using their phones. Even though outside there was a poster that said the … Continue reading Norway Cruise: Eidfjord