Monday 11 August
Building up a blog backlog, but have not been able to post for some days.
For the first time it feels like we are on a ship, as we finally get a bit of a swell- but barely noticeable. The Captain tells us that yesterday's weather was as good as it ever gets in northern Norway. Today is similar, warmer at about 20C, but cloud in the sky, as we head south. Norway fact - the country has 50,000 islands!!!!
Crossed back out of the Arctic Circle at 11am as we head south. Restful day with plenty of reading, a couple more Windows 8.1 and photograpgy classes and, for one of us, an excellent walking effort on the Promenade Deck (the slim, attractive one).
Invitation to Mariners (Holland America's frequent cruisers program) champagne lunch with the Captain. Special award to one traveller who reaches 1000 cruise days this trip!!!!!! We bat on at 2 Star level, but received another tile.
The Rotterdam is a beautiful ship, best described as "elegant" and it seems to hold on to its crew, as we recognise quite a few from two years back.
Very interesting crowd on board, more than 800 from the Netherlands, then probably about 350 Americans. Interesting cohort among the Americans. They all seem wealthy to mega wealthy and they have a common dislike for Obama - from mild dislike to outright hostility.
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