Day 6, 12.10.2018, Atlantic off Portugal, Leixoes, Porto has had to be abandoned as a destination. The port is closed. There was a nasty storm last night as we came around Finisterre. 60 knot winds at times, maybe Beaufort 10 or even 11. It shook up the beer in the fridge let me tell you. …
Day 5, 11.10.2018, La Coruña, Spain, My third time to La Coruña. The first time was with Dan and Ian after a rough Biscay crossing early September 2007. We didn’t do much. Just wandered the streets a little and rested up. The second time was in August of 2017 with Heike on the AIDAbella enroute from …
Day 2, 08.10.2018, North Sea, Heike has been on the Baltic Sea run with AIDAaura for the past few weeks. For the last 10 days, Roland, Heike’s father, and Freddie, Retha’s daughter, have been along for the ride but their trip was over so I collected them from the ship drove them to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof …
Day 1, 07.10.2018, Hamburg-Altona, I rented a big Audi today at Schönefeld Airport in Berlin for a one-way trip to Hamburg to join the AIDAaura. This car had a head-up display with data projected on to the windscreen like a fighter plane. Streaking along no-speed-limit Autobahns at nearly 200 km/hour, or Mach 0.2 as we …
We have a trip coming up in a couple of weeks that will take us by sea from Hamburg to the fjords of Patagonia and then island hopping across the South Pacific to Sydney. This is cruise-ship work for Heike but I’m going along this time as a stowaway. Slurping cocktails on the pool-deck is not …