Sunday, July 19, 2009

On the Jewel of the Sea 12 day Cruise

Welcome lunch at the windjammer on the 11th floor. Looking down at the Centrum from the 12th floor to the 4th floor.
From the 4th floor looking up to the 12th floor.

John and Chris our new found friends from England.
Everynight we sat next to them on the front row watching the stage productions.


Evan and Norma with our waiters
one from India and the other from Turkey

This is our stewart Merlin. He kept our room looking tip top.
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Paris

Louvre museum

Look at this horrible traffic jam.
They were everywhere in Paris.

Thought I had NotreDame Cathedral but it was the bulding after it.
We had lunch on a river boat while cruising down the river seine

Eiffel Tower
From our river boat

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Blarney Castle

Norma, Kissed the Blarney Stone after climbing 156 stairs.
At the top of the battlements
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Dublin, Ireland

This is the most photographed door in Dublin.
On a Georgian Style Building.

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Scotland

Bruce the Scottish border collie
Herds sheep like these in the cage.

The mountain village where sheep are grown for meat.

Had lunch at Forest Hill Hotel.



Norma with the tour guide.


A boat on Loch Lomond. Can you see the castle in the background?


Our farewell with bag pipes and the whole staff waving at us.




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Geiranger Fjord

Reindeer at the top of Mount Dalsnibba
at an altitude of over 4,500 feet

Some of the hairpin bends going up to the top of the mountains.

Our ship is getting smaller. As we climb the Mountain.

Would you believe this is the sunset at midnight in Norway?
The night lasts about 4 hours.
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Flam Norway

This is a view from the ship.This is a Troll. Legend says they were mean and in
daylight they turn to stone
Now they have good ones and bad ones.This is the Jewel of the Sea. (Our Ship)Lots and Lots of waterfalls in Norway.

An old church house.
*note the murder wasn't buried in the chruch cemitary.
Our bus driver had lots of trolls on his bus.
this is just the one in the front of the bus.
This is where we ate in Geilo. We enjoyed a Norwegian buffet lunch.
We walked down the hill from lunch to the train station.
This is our train.
Flowers on the walkway on way to the train station.
Kjosfossen Waterfall on our way back to Flam and our ship.