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Amsterdam to Scotland to Iceland to Norway  We’ll blog here about our Holland America Cruise as the Wifi and time allows

We arrived in Amsterdam after flying through the night. We were met at the airport by a pre-arranged taxi and delivered to our hotel. It was well before check-in time but they allowed us to check in anyway. We are…

We woke up this morning to the Konigsdam docked right outside of our hotel window. We don’t board until 2:00 PM so we have time for a bit of a lazy morning. We walked over to the cruise terminal and…

Today was a day at Sea all day. We slept a ittle bit late but we had to clear UK immigration in preparation for our arrival in Scotland tomorrow. We had breakfast and then went down to the theater to…

   We arrived in South Queensferry Scotland this morning at around 7:30 AM local time. This is a port where we can’t get to a dock and have to take small boats (tenders) from the ship to the shore. We…

Today we were still anchored in the harbor near South Queensferry and we had an early excursion to the Scenic area called the Troussachs, Stirling Castle, and Aberfoyle.  We started off by tendering to shore again, and joining a bus…

We arrived in Invergordon at about 7:00 AM. invergordon is a small town that is famous for repairing Oil Rigs and so on the way in you see a lot of Oil rigs anchored in the harbor or under tow…

We were late getting into Reykjavik and spent a fair amount of time on our Verandah looking for birds and other wildlife and we were able to see some dolphins and whales from the verandah. There were also a lot…

We got into port later than planned and so our excursion was changed a bit. We had been booked for the Golden Circle for 8.5 hours but instead we had a shortened version for 5.5 hours, starting at 6:30 PM…

We started our second day in Reykjavik at the Blue Lagoon. It’s definitely a tourist trap but something that you have to do at least once. The drive out to the Blue Lagoon was past miles and miles of lava…

We sailed from Reykjavik to Isafjordur overnight. We expected to see pretty much the same landscape, but in the West Fjords the landscape is very different. We didn’t see a lot of Lava fields the way that we had outside…

We have a few days of blog to catch up on but we said that we would post a photo of us on Formal night so here it is. 

Today we were in Akureyri which is the 4th largest city in Iceland. It was a small town but they had a dock big enough to accomodate the cruise ship, due to what looked like a lot of shipping traffic…

Our first stop in Norway was Alesund. It was an overcast day but at least we had no rain. The town of Alesund Norway as we arrived, taken from the ship We were on an all day excursion from the…

Our last port was Bergen Norway. This is the second largest city in Norway behind Oslo. It’s a universtiy city and a place where there are lots of shops and bars and a live music scene. We didn’t get to…