Ports visited; Floro, Maloy, Torvik, Alesund, Molde, Kristiansund.

I had a terrible night, I just couldn’t sleep. Every time the boat rocked, I rocked. I tried lying on my front, back, either side to no avail. I don’t know what was wrong with me, I didn’t feel sick, just extremely anxious. I kept our portholes open (didn’t shut the lids) and looked out into the night several times. Anyway, I was glad when eventually, it was a sensible time to get up.

Breakfast service starts at 07.00 hrs and I was ready for it, Terry, on the other hand, wasn’t. I waited around for almost an hour for him, but he said he wasn’t feeling hungry so I ended up going to breakfast on my own. After breakfast, I returned to our cabin (219), Terry was still in bed. He said he would get up soon, I really didn’t want to stay in the cabin so took myself to The Explorer Longe where I found a seat and sat with my book.

It was nearly 11:00 hrs and still no Terry, I texted him ‘are you up yet’. He replied that he was feeling unwell, that he had tried to have a shower but had had to return to bed to lie down as it made him feel sick. I returned to the cabin and gave him a seasick tablet, told him that contrary to belief, living down generally made people feel worse ( pretended I knew it all but had just looked it up on Google) and 1/2 hr later he was fine. Clever me.

We were due to stop at Alesund at midday and I was worried Terry hadn’t had anything to eat since the previous evening, so we popped up to the restaurant for lunch before heading out. I had Butternut Squash soup and half a loaf of bread and Terry had a crumb, he was still worried about throwing up.

We disembarked the ship around 12.30 hrs and were hoping to catch sight of a tour bus which I had read about, which took passengers all around Alesund and up to Mt Aksla, a viewpoint where you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city however, we couldn’t find the tour bus, bus stop, so decided to do our own thing. We were aware that it was possible to walk up to the viewpoint and did find the Town Park where the walk started however, discovered that the walk up entailed climbing 418 very steep, icy steps. I pointed out that unfortunately, I had forgotten to put my spikes on my shoes so sadly…..unfortunately…..we had to give it a miss.

We did make the most of our time on land and had a good look around the shops. There were many touristy type shops and nearly all of them have sales, or ,salgs’ as they are known in Norway. A word easily mistaken for another, not very nice word, that Terry reminds me of each time we pass a shop that has a Salg on.

We got back to the ship in time to set sail at 15.00 hrs. We found a nice cosy seat on the 7th level, the ‘Explorer Longe’ named such as it has seats facing huge windows where you can sit and watch the world go by. Sadly, we rarely get to sit in one of these for more than an hour or two as as soon as one is vacated, somebody is ready to jump in his/her place. We did find a nice plush settee however with just as good views where we parked our selves for the afternoon. The boat has wool and crochet hooks/knitting needles available and willing knitters/crochet ears are asked to knit/crochet a 4″ square piece to sew into blankets. At the time of writing this (30.01.19), I have crocheted 6 squares and the ships wool is now running low.

We didn’t have dinner until around 20:00 hrs as unlike breakfast and lunch, dinner is at a reserved time and at a reserved table. We were both absolutely ravenous by this time and were pleased to get served quite quickly after being seated. We both had 3 courses (no shellfish or fish for Terry) and commented on how good the food was.

Although I wasn’t feeling sick at all, I had noticed that the anti sickness tablets I had bought/given to Terry might induce tiredness so I decided that I would take one before I went to bed.

By the time the ship left port at 22.45 hrs, I was soundo.

Statue in the Town; how we will look when we come home. 😂