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Monday, 10 July 2023

Norway

I recently went on my first ocean cruise which was to Norway [from Tilbury, London]

The first stop was Bergen

You can see the ship in this photo

We travelled up the mountain on the funicular. This view was through the window going down the mountain.

We saw trolls - actually this one was in a shop doorway, a lot of them on top of the mountain had seen better days

There were some lovely drain grates

If only all McDonald's looked like this!

Back to the ship for cocktails in the Observatory bar

Next stop was Flam

Here we boarded the Flam train which passed through lovely countryside. It stopped at the Kjosfossen waterfall for a photo shoot.

At Myrdal we had to change to a regular train, this wasn't as much fun as the Flam train, it was delayed then stopped for ages at each stop which of course gave us less time to spend at Voss. We had a lovely lunch at Voss then spent a little time by the lake. Notice the snow on the mountains, it wasn't cold in fact it was quite hot about 27 degrees.

A coach then took us to another waterfall, this one was called Tvindefossen which was spectacular.

I did a diary page for each day, this is my favourite page, the others look a bit boring

Bye Bye Flam

Next stop Eidjford and a coach trip to Vorringsfossen waterfalls. There were several waterfalls here and walkways and bridges.

Unfortunately there was not enough time to get to the closest spot to the waterfall[ which can be seen in this photo on close up] We got some rain here so I'm glad I took the plastic macs.

Next stop was the Sysen Dam, there was hardly any water there but we could see a glacier in the distance.

We stopped at another waterfall on the way back to the ship and I also took some photos through the coach window, this is one.

Our next stop was to be Haugesund but we didn't make it. It was foggy so we were hanging about a

little way off, the port was shut as it was to dangerous to venture there. It was still the same at lunchtime so the Captain made the decision to head back to Tilbury early. We didn't get back early, the ship just went slower to get there. This is the view from the ship that morning.

We'd got a trip booked so unfortunately we missed that but there is nothing anyone can do about the weather. The sea was really calm for most of the journey.

I enjoyed my first ocean cruise, the scenery was stunning.

The cabin, staff, food and entertainment were all good too.

I'm linking to Monday Window as there were a few photos of windows.

Friday, 7 July 2023

Flowering Air plant

My air plant also known as Tillandsia Ionantha "Conehead". It is growing on a piece of textured wood and lives in the bathroom, I just lightly spray it with water once a week. The green spiky leaves turn red/pink when flowering. I've seen the purple flowers most years that I've had the plant but the flowers only last a couple of days before wilting. I've read that the plant dies after flowering so the flowers I see every year must be from new pups.

Unusual flowers for FOTD

I can see a face of a wonderful creature with spiky hair and purple horns. So I've drawn it just in case you couldn't see it. Oops missed off the horns.

With this face I'm joining in with Friday Face Off