Wednesday, 16th September
Welcome back, and where it’s a shorter story today. Here we are aboard the Cruise Ship – Bolette – the flagship of Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. It’s Day 5 of our 10-day sail around the UK – and there’s a major change to our itinerary! 😵💫
It affects today (Day 5), another ‘at sea’ day, where we were hoping to enjoy The Skelligs, Inishabro, Tearaght and the Cliffs of Moher as a ‘sail by’. Nope! Tomorrow (Day 6), we were due to visit Killybegs (where’s that?) – but that’s off too! ☹️. Apparently, it’s all down to the weather conditions and judging by how rocky the Ship was last night – I believe them! 😮.
In short, instead of the WEST coast of Ireland, we’re now sailing up the EAST coast – and heading for Belfast.
All at Sea (but not as you know it!)
And so, we’re still on a sea day, it’s just the view is different! 🤔. I suspect there are going to be a lot of unhappy Cruisers today (including us!) where it’ll be time to make best use of the onboard facilities. Damn! The ‘Knit and Natter’ class was full! 😳 and ‘no’, I’m not going to the crochet class!! I’m more of a ‘Tips for Fixing a Broken Website’ kind of guy! 😁 (but you knew that!)
We therefore spent a lazy morning in one of the coffee lounges, catching up with our reading and sampling the ‘local produce’ 😊.
We followed this with MORE to eat and drink – and a visit to the Buffet (well, we did skip breakfast!!)
Then it was our customary ‘four times around the Prom Deck’. Oh, just us then. En-route, we discovered they’d re-opened the Forecastle Viewing area (up at the pointy bit!) 👍👍
You’ll be pleased to know that we resisted the temptation to re-enact the Leonard Di Caprio/Kate Winslett scene from Titanic and made do with a photo featuring the Ship’s Bell and a Belle, instead! 😉
Evening Meal – Wednesday
No more food! Please! Oh, go on then!!! 😋
Entertainment
Tonight, we made our own entertainment! (stop tittering at the back!). Cue the final episode of BBC’s Ludwig, courtesy of iPlayer, a few weeks ahead of the TV broadcast.
I won’t spoil things by revealing the ending here, but if you’re a fan, it’s worth a watch.
Tomorrow…
We’re in Belfast. We haven’t been here for a good many years (17, I think). In fact, the Titanic Exhibition wasn’t built then, so we’re saving a few beans there!
See you tomorrow! 🥱💤💤
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