I don’t go on many ‘relaxing’ holidays ... so cruising up the Norwegian Fjord sounded like a good plan to me! We flew to Copenhagen and spent a few days avoiding being hit by the Danes riding there bikes everywhere and eating lots of pastries.
Boarded Costa Atlantica, our ship and ... WOW ... the last time we went on a cruise I was 14 and didn’t fully appreciate how ornate and ... beautiful and HUGE the ship actually was!! I’m not going to say much on this as I’m going to Canada tomorrow and should have written this as soon as I got back really.
But we had a great week, seeing some of the most stunning scenery on the globe. Gerange was especially amazing; the ship was so huge that the horn was blasted before turning every bend to get up the fjord. The weather was glorious and had we had more time I would have liked to go up into the mountains for an explore =]
The food was exquisit ... over the course of the week I had just about every exotic fish you can eat! The evening dining room was so.... there’s something nice about walking the ship to go to dinner and stopping off at piano bars and violin lounges along the way (cafe Florien is a copy of the cafe in St Marks Square in Venice ... they have silver trays!!) The waiters were extraordinary and the shows after in the theatre were just what you needed to settle a 7 course meal! We always went for a stroll around deck three after, to take-in the scenery, weather it be stretching ocean or blood red sunsets against the fjords.
Met loads of people on the ship ... most of them were Spanish ... I actually said to one guy ‘me encanta la sopa’ ... which means ‘I love soup’ ... apparently, saying ‘Hola’ was too hard for me. Me and Vicky spent most of our free time with Brennan and Luka, two guys who could actually understand us!
Bergen was a fascinating city; we got the ... right up to the top of the hill, and walked down. Also having a look around a Norwegian marked was fun ... lots of dead animals ... and live sea creatures.
All in all ... an incredible trip ... food remarkable!! I’m still expecting trays of cakes all around me 24/7!!!
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