Thursday May 8

At Sea

We are on our final approach to Amsterdam today. Again it's a nice day outside but cool. It's kind of a rest day before we travel back to NL tomorrow.

After breakfast we dropped by the art auction but didn't stay too long as there wasn't much there to interest us. lol After lunch Gladys went to Bingo and I went up to take part in a putting contest on Deck 15. There were about a dozen participants in a 2 hole contest and 3 of us tied for the lead so we had a playoff. It was fun and 2 of us went to a second playoff round and we were still tied so they left it at that. We both got a medal. :-)

When I was on deck for the putting contest I noticed on the horizon a lot of windmills so I took a photo on my phone where you can see some of them in the water in the distance. I tried to count but there were too many of them.

For dinner tonight we had a Cobb salad to start us of and we both had prime rib steak for our main followed by a sticky caramel pudding for dessert. It was all great. Jorge also brought us some chorizo linguine to try as well.

Signing off for now as we ready for bed and an early rise in the morning. We leave the ship at 8:30 for our ride to the airport. We fly from Amsterdam at 12:15pm arriving in Toronto at 2:15 EST. We leave Toronto at 5:15 pm EST arriving in St. John's at 9:39pm NST.

Cheers to all. See you soon.

Golf Winners

Art Auction

Windmills

Ships Captain and Crew introduced last night.

Wednesday May 7

Lerwick, Scotland

This morning when we arrived in Lerwick with a population of around 7,000 people the weather was the best I've seen for around 7:00am in the morning. Even though the temperature only got to around 13C today it was fabulous outside. After an early morning breakfast we took a 5 minute tender ashore to check out the town of Lerwick. We spent about 5 hours exploring the lovely little town situated in the Shetland Islands. We visited a couple of churches, Fort Charlotte and many of the other sites around town. This week there was a special event going on related to WWII. Apparently during the war many of Norway's children were taken by boat to the Shetlands area for safe keeping and three of the ships used for the transport were here in Lerwick for the past few days. As well an old Norwegian naval ship turned into a WWII museum was here too. It was free to visit each of them and we went to the museum along with one of the small boats.

It's a very pretty little town with a field of windmills located not too far from the town.

We had a busy day in town and got back in time to ready for dinner. Today we both had a Tomato Soup Bisque for our starter and lobster tail for our main course. Jorge, our waiter also brought us Duck L'Orange to try as well. I found it very good but Gladys just ate a little. For dessert we had Baked Alaskan which was quite good.

I took a fair number of photos around town which I will share with you tomorrow.

Gladys with her Proseco.

Tomato Bisque

Lobster Tail

Duck L'Orange

Baked Alaskan

Our Server Tanya from Zimbawbe.

Few photos while the ship was coming into Lerwick.

A few of the streets in town.

A few of the walkways between streets.

A few of Lerwick's buildings.

St. Margaret's Catholic Church

Methodist Church

A few of the boats in port at Lerwick.

Fort Charlotte

Few photos of the downtown area.

Gladys's kind of dogs.