Aarhus; Friday, 06 August, 2010

I had intended on having a nice long lie-in and then going for a late breakfast. Unfortunately, that wasn’t to be as the PA system crackled into life just before 8am (which I wouldn’t have minded except that this was 8am ships time, 7am UK time) announcing that Breakfast was shortly going to be served, then 25 minutes later that there would be a chance for children to meet the captain in a few minutes time.

I took that as my invitation to go down for breakfast, and sure enough the restaurant was in the process of emptying.

Overnight the swell had calmed down and it was now pretty flat and calm. Then, just after 10am ships time, land appeared on the horizon, albeit Great Yarmouth. This was a bit surprising, as we weren’t due to dock for another three hours. I can’t remember how far it is from Great Yarmouth to Harwich, but I would have thought even with the pretty poor road network in that part of England you could do the journey around the coast in less than three hours, and we only had to go in a straight line!

But true to the timetable, it took three hours before, almost on the dot of 1pm ships time we landed at Harwich and I disembarked, walking across a time-zone into the terminal building so that I was at passport control 55 minutes before I had landed.