Norwaylady

Glassblowing is really fun🤩 it’s a creative activity! I am due to my volunteer work, able to blow glass twice a year at Hadeland Glassverk at home🤩 So I have several vases and hanging balls blown and handpicked colours of my self😌 So it’s fun to watch their work onboard! but I’m blowing at home;) Fingers crossed for a great Baltic cruise! Hopefully the weather is good😇😎☀️

Around 12.15 I called it for the day. Time to return onboard. A very underwhelming day for me🤣🤣😎 On the positive side, no big 🤩🤩🤩 things Mr didn’t attend🥰 I stopped in Al Bacio to have a little espresso macchiato and soda water. It’s on days like this you really miss a functional roll call on CC for your sailing⚓️ And I have 2 goals for 2024! I need to learn how to play bridge & mahjong🤓

After breakfast Mr went to the office on the balcony😎🤓 and I decided to go for a walk and take the ferry to Plage Anse. Well, well…. Welcome to 🇫🇷 France🤣🤣 The city is all locked and closed. It’s a Sunday🙃 On the ferry site it said that the ferry to Plage Anse was temporary closed until further notice due to a broken dock. So it was impossible to use the dock. So I had rerouted my day to Pointe du Bout and one of the beaches over there. I left the ship little before 09.00. It’s no grand tour shopping area for last minute tour guests. Very limited. I stopped by the tourist information tent and the lady said unfortunately the ferry operator is on strike🤪🫠 they have had an ongoing strike for 5 weeks, so all ferry’s from Port-de-France to the close by areas is cancelled. Yes 👍🏻 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 That’s the grumpy French we know from home🤣🤣🤣😜 So plan b… Check for last minute tours and plage Saline. Well, that was a BIG no from el cheapo ME🥵🫣🫠🤪💰💸💵💶 Number 1, I’m 1. So insanely priced. Number 2. It’s hilarious expensive on this island. All is priced in Euros €€€ and the dollar is very expensive for us due to horrible NOK. But the €€€€ EUR is even worse😰🫠🫡🫣 SO I’m not spending 400€ to get to Plage Saline. Sorry! The tours offered by the ship were not super exciting before departure. So therefore we didn’t book something via the ship. So I took a grand walk in the completely dead city centre😎😆 The church ⛪️ was in Sunday service mode. On the positive side, Martinique is ranked as home for my phone(since it eu/Schengen). So I can call as usual and use data. So I called my grandfather to tell him we were still alive and ask how he was doing💙 He was tired of the snow and was hoping for better weather and walking conditions outside. Plage Francaise is the only beach in walking distance from the ship. It’s only 10-minutes from the ship by foot. Lots of tourists from the ship ended up here😅😎 It’s not the most beautiful place on the island. But the lack of the ferry service is a big problem…. Close to the port, it’s a souvenir shopping area. They were open. But the vendors made it clear they wanted the day off… No big bargains or haggling today😆💶💶

Fort-de-France, Martinique 🇲🇶 calling! Mr was surprisingly early awake😅 We arrived early and ship was cleared already at 07.49😎 This was a new message said during clearance information: all non European/schengen nationals need to bring your passport ashore🙃 eu/schengen guests can bring identification cards. Well thank you Schengen! 🙌🏻🇳🇴 We watched the docking operation from our balcony. The church bells 🔔 started ringing at 07.00. Mr wanted MDR breakfast and I totally agree on that🙌🏻 We arrived before the crowd. I had my BYO breakfast special😋 Poached eggs, English muffins and salmon😋😋😋 (at some point I need to have at least one morning of this) Mr had his menu, omelette and cottage cheese with fruit.

It’s a pleasure to follow your journey! Really looking forward to be back on Infinity later this year🙌🏻👍🏻 Greek 🇬🇷 isles are something special💙

CruiseCompass Day 7 Martinique No map for the destination as delivered to all other port of call during this b2b.

Dinner tonight was good. Crew is very friendly and our neighbours are very fun and friendly. Today’s menu We had quinoa salad, pea soup, mesclun salad, Moroccan lamb and pasta pappardelle. Dessert 😋😋😋 banana fosters and ice cream for the kids😜🤪😜 After dinner it was bedtime🥱 It was all lights out and dead at 22.15😝🤣🤣🤣 Welcome to the party life of us🤣🤣🤣

After returning to the ship we had a little stop in Al Bacio. Needed to refuel the body on club soda, coffee and a little sandwich. Then it was shower and downtime on the balcony😎 Tonight’s show is production show Elysium. Great show! The dancers and vocal was great 🙌🏻 The “big band” evening is on🎶 The orchestra is playing in grand foyer🎶 It’s my favourite thing when they do big band live🎶 Tonight was second time the captain came on to message medic emergency during this cruise🚨 Fingers crossed that it would go well❤️

This are the worst ones of the rotation🤪😝 I totally agree on pet food visual🧐

Today’s canapés had arrived! 🤔🫣🤭 Culinary highlight of the day!

This was the warning letter⚠️⚠️⚠️ it was hidden in the envelope between spa deals and the other papers from shore excursion.

St Lucia is very lush and green🌴🌳🌴 So it is a very beautiful place and day. But it’s very important to check travel time and google you to death ☠️😂😂 To get the most accurate information and tour for your desires😇 I will still come back👍🏻

it’s what we call home a “Japanese tour” they run thru Vigelandspark (the Skulptur park in Oslo) taking photos and videos, running onwards to Bygdø for the Kon Tiki museum and then the Munch museum in a fully booked day🤪😅😅😅 We did another hike in 2016 in St Lucia. We went walking to a really nice waterfall and could go swimming in it. it was a drive from port, but only 30.minutes to the starting point of the tour. Really a great day. Unfortunately we haven’t found the tour on X. The tour was booked via another cruise line.

So… this is The tale of 250+ curves and jumps🤪 To my NZ friends, think Motueka to Golden Bay on speed😂🤪😂 YES 🙌🏻 you got it😅 Well, this is the day for a long time in a minibus 🚐 It’s around 2-2,5h each way on the carousel 🎠 bananas growing we had toilet stop, they had a selection of local rum mixes. Well, first thing first…. It’s 45-60.minutes of hiking🥾 The rest is travel time😬 So to call it a hiking trip is stretching it, Island sightseeing with a walk would be a better description. The trail was easy for us. It’s uneven and uphill until you reach the viewpoint. I was definitely expecting more than this of a hiking trip. The view of the Pitons are pretty. But to travel all day for this hike is not my cup of tea🤭😝 After the hike we had a little local snack, everyone was served banana cake and fish cake. The sauce was banana ketchup. And a piece of watermelon 🍉 Then we drove downtown to Soufriere to have 20.minutes on a beach. Not a beach or location to write home about. Mr found his thing 🍺 holy smoke 5$ The it was the 250curves and jumps returning to the port😜

Thank you! We have visited here in 2014 and 2016😎 We can see in port that it has developed more. More taller buildings and construction going on🤓

I know🙄 it’s one thing we really don’t like and there are no Sky Lounge/forward public spaces front view🫤 There are other elements we love. The jogging track is perfect 🤩 And the 4-MDR works great. Seems like you have a great time onboard🥰 CD Giuseppe is great 👍🏻

Good morning! St Lucia calling⚓️ We are downstairs in MDR waiting for our breakfast. I said to Mr, no way Hose, I’m eating OV this morning…. I will have a proper breakfast before I go hiking 🥾 It was empty when we arrived 07.30 when they opened. Menu We have ordered our breakfast and waiting for it to arrive. We are doing this tour: I should be worried🫣🤔😳 When I took out the last tour tickets in the envelope…. It was tiny tiny letter folded: Saying it’s a 2-2.5h drive before we start walking AND it’s a winding road🤪🤪 The map looks promising for that😝

CruiseCompass Day 6 St Lucia

Mr snagged a 🍸 from the Martini flight 20.00. Dinner Our French Canadians was long gone after day 1.😂🙌🏻 Good for us, since their English was not good and my French is not the best and Mr has nada skills in French 🇫🇷😂😂😂 But we received a new Canadian table from Toronto the next evening! They are super friendly and funny🙌🏻🥰 So very happy with the change of table mates👍🏻 Today’s menu: So this is one of the menu sets I was looking for last week🧐🤭 We had spring rolls, the salad, pork schnitzel and the duck. It was good to excellent. The spring roll was great and tasty. The salad was fresh and delicious for the eyes. But coloured black olives 🫒🙄 they belong on pizza, not for my salad🤭 they taste nothing like the real olives…. And choice of dressing was very pale in flavour. A good balsamic or a little bit of pesto would have made it tasty😇 The duck was delicious and perfect 🤩 Mr was super happy for the schnitzel😋 Dessert One off limits to me 🍍🍍🍍 And the rest is just not my thing🙃 But ice cream 🍦 that’s always a winner! Chocolate and banana-rum. (That banana-rum scoop was 😋😋😋 tonight) Then it was off to bedtime 🥱 It was a message from shore excursion on the phone. They called us 20.46 to tell us that our meeting time was moved forward from 08.30 to 08.15!!! Be there on time please😝

Well, this woke up the theatre😂🎶🎶 Great show and orchestra did a excellent job. Whitney tribute show💙🙌🏻🎶

After returning home, we needed to shower off and just take it easy for a while. At 18.35 they asked if following passengers are onboard… So someone is uncounted or missing on the ship. All onboard was 18.30. Tonight’s show is Chaeza - a tribute to Whitney Houston

Today’s canapés

Mr had a “home-alone party” on the helipad before arrival😎 He needs to work on his selfie skills😜 Our snorkelling 🤿 tour had meeting time 12.30 on the pier. Remember to allow enough time to walk the pier and thru the shopping area. We left the ship/stateroom 12.05 and was on the meeting point 12.15. We needed to take a bus to the other side of the harbour to board our boat for the day. It was a floating dock😂🤿 So keep your stuff in a dry bag😝😅⚓️ The tour company Tiami has several different boats. So they had 2 groups onboard 2 “floating” docks and a third group on a catamaran boat. So plenty of people were snorkelling today😝🏖️🤿 It was a bumpy ride to our 2 locations, the shipwreck and turtle 🐢 bay. Snorkelling was heavy waves today and strong wind. So we survived but for others, it was a struggle💙. They provided mask, snorkel 🤿 and an inflatable vest. It was mandatory to wear the vest. No fins😟 (and in this current and wave, that’s really not the best idea) The view was not the best, it was okay. But really not on our top ten list. It was free bar after the snorkelling. After the snorkelling 🤿 we went for a beach hog. We had 45.minutes. Nice beach and relaxing place. Then it was time for our return trip back to the ship. We arrived back on the ship 16.30. I will upload the GoPro later for a reel.

premium WiFi has worked like a clock. I have talked on FaceTime video calls, no problems. I have used vpn for work, no problems. Teams meting, no problems. Mr needed to download heavy duty from work, no problems. we have a router in our stateroom. so it’s no problem on the balcony for coverage.

Rise & shine from the ocean! We are not docking until 11.00 today in Barbados 🇧🇧 Mr needs to speak live with colleagues, so he needs to be up and running for office time 07.00. AKA, have his computer in bed and a t-shirt on😜🤭😂 ( you must add +6h for Norway/european 🕰️ ) I have a planned teams meeting at 08.30. Need to go over some details in a project for work. I went for a power walk from 0720 to 08.10. Mr was finished on meeting when I arrived. So he wanted breakfast. My meeting was a bit delayed, so we wanted to go downstairs to MDR🤪🤪 The line was long and it was very busy. So we ended up in Tuscan for captains club breakfast. I had a quick breakfast before I left for my meeting. Mr went to the sail-in. I was occupied by my meeting🤪 Mr said it was not crowded at all. After my meeting and Mr’s adventure on the helipad we wanted a little snack before the snorkelling 🤿 tour. So we went downstairs to Al Bacio😇 a full house😝 Everyone was waiting for clearance of the ship.