Blogs from Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Our morning arrival in Greenock finds us a stone’s throw from Glasgow. Normal dining operations on the Rotterdam have returned and it appears that we won’t be returning to Boston under the “Code Red” conditions that resulted soon after our embarkation from there. We grabbed our normal “Tour Day” fare from the Lido, and it went quicker now that we were back to serving ourselves. It was nice to have salt and pepper back on the tables, and not needing to walk halfway across the Lido to track down a set of tableware. We have another All-Day tour that will likely not get us back in time for Trivia. The Showroom was packed with others waiting for tours to be announced. We were in the third wave off the Rotterdam filling busses 6 and 7 headed ... read more

Sunday 5th October We had a leisurely breakfast and our daily dance lesson before we arrived at Greenoch (Glasgow) around noon. It was a beautiful sail into Greenoch, up Firth of Clyde. We were accompanied by a flotilla of ferries, small craft, jet skis plus a navy war ship. There was large turnout on the dockside to welcome us, possibly because the QE2 had been built in the area. Throughout the day there was a gold coin donation to view the ship and apparently 20,000 pounds was raised for charity. The weather was fine and we were pleased we had organised another small mini bus with a driver to take us sightseeing. Ian from Doodlebus was there to meet us in his kilt, it was a nice touch and he looked the part. Ian drove off ... read more