Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Cruising the Fiords

Our cruise ship is the MS Richard With. it has 691 passengers. We seem to be the only Aussies on board. Our cabin is on the 2nd top deck with a lovely picture window where we can sit and watch the passing scenery. The meals are excellent and we do not know if our clothes will fit when we get off!

The boat makes frequent stops along the coast of 15 - 45 minutes. At the moment we are in Trondheim, Norway's 3rd largest city and former capital. We are here for about 3 hours.

The highlight yesterday was travelling inland along the fiords for 100 km with the last 20 km up the beautiful Geiranger Fiord with its sheer cliffs dropping straight down into the water, numerous high waterfalls including 7 in a row called the Seven Sisters and snow topped mountains.

3 comments:

theotherbear said...

Well a nice small ship like that is just perfect. There'd be almost more staff than passengers.

Miss Di said...

But the important question hasn't been answered...What's the food like and have you eaten a rollmop?

gailandrob said...

It is a seafood lover's paradise with seafood options for every course..... except dessert.

Dinner is a set menu but we have been given an alternative to seafood. Breakfast and lunch are huge buffets.

The only meal that caused a problem was when the main dishes at the buffet were whale steaks or reindeer stroganoff. I had a rare roast beef salad.