Greetings all! Looks like no one hasw started sea mail yet, so I thought I would kick it off! We got on board yesterday about 3:00, and sal away was pretty much on schedule around 5:15. The weather is drop dead GORGEOUS! Sunny skies, temperature around 63 this morning. We are at sea today, and just fixing to go take our walk, and then hit the pool bar for a bloody mary or two.

I haven't met the other LCT folks yet. I did see Ngaire from a distance last night, but didn't introduce ourselves yet. Needless to say, we were pretty wiped out from the travel over. The flight on SAS was very nice (had never flown on them before), but still only able to sleep a couple of hours. But, we are well rested today and ready to party!

Will try to keep you posted and add some photos as we go.

We're here, we're here.
Cindy, I just finished my walk. We must have passed unknowingly.

The Voyager is in top shape--everything nice and clean, the new furnishings look great. We got onboard about 12:30. No lines at all. Had lunch in La Veranda, and who spots us as soon as we walk in--Ngaire. She has an eagle eye. It was nice to get to meet she and Ken. They are a very gracious couple.
Food at lunch was very good. My son says the pizza was really tasty. I had my usual big salad.

We ate dinner in Prime 7. Really good. Beautiful decor and place settings with proper wine glasses. Carlos, our favorite wine guy, was there keeping things topped up. Service was spot-on, neither to slow or too hurried.
I had the crab cakes (not the best I have EVER had but very good), beet salad, Dover sole and asparagus, and berries for desert. The Dover sole was really excellent.
My husband had surf and turf. He thought the beef was very good but not as good as ours (but we are spoiled since we have our own grass fed beef at home). They were very nice about making a big plate of veges for my vegetarian son, and he was happy. I had a bite of his creamed spinach and will be ordering that sometime in the future as it was really great.

Today we are just planning on goofing off. Signatures tonight.

Yeah, seamail!! Good to hear that you all have made it off to a wonderful start on the Voyager. Thanks for checking in.

Rachel, the creamed spinach is always great in the Compass Rose. Ask for it the night before and you can get an order for your table.

Cindy, looking forward to your photos.

So happy to know you're on board and we have seamail to look forward to. I hope you all meet each other around the ship as it sounds like a fun bunch. Hope your nice weather continues too. Have a great time....

Thanks for checking in, we are starving for seamail!
I guess I should go out in the bushes and start some stalking!

Karen, Maybe these will help with your stalk.

Cindy and Rachel, it's great to see the beginning seamail from your voyage. Eagering awaiting more reports!

Hi everyone.

Well we are off to a nice start. WONDERFUL weather, seas calm and the sun is shining. Nice to see Captain Dag again we have not sailed with him for a long time.

Ken's brother Richard and our sister in law Lori are on board and we had a family dinner tonight and enjoyed it very much. We only live about 4 houses away from each other but never seem to spend anytime together, so it was nice to have this time this evening. A fantastic dinner tonight of lobster and beef wellington.

I have met almost everyone now, Cindy came over tonight and introduced herself and her husband David, so I only have a few left to meet. There are quite a few on this trip that I have never met before.

Lovely to see Ralph and Carol, Pat and Ray, Frank and Wendy again.

We taught Frank and Susan to play pooch today. Both Susan and Frank are on Dragon so they will ready to take the Pooch challengers on when we have some time on the Vietnam trip.

Bobby and Marti watched but did not take the plunge yet. Somehow I missed getting in touch with Pat and she loves pooch, I have barely seen her since we boarded but we are having dinner tomorrow night. The cruise is young we will be sure she gets her pooch fix.

Another surprise for us was Gerry the entertainer from the Diamond who used to be one of the stars in Don Vitos. He is a really fantastic entertainer and is playing in the Observation lounge. He is amazing with the sounds that he makes into the microphone. You would swear a trumpet was being played. So we are really enjoying him in the evening.

Tomorrow Geiranger and I hope the weather holds, it is truly one of the most beautiful spots in the bright sunlight.

Be back later.

Gerry Is back!!! Too bad no sign of Mona Lisa, they were such a great pair, but she had small children at home if I remember correctly.

Can't wait to see pictures....

They have arrived

One of the highlights from my Norway cruise was sailing down the fjord into Geiranger...absolutely beautiful.

Nancy

Great stalk, David!

Nancy, I agree that sailing into Geiranger is a highlight. I remember looking down on the ship at almost exactly the point where the cam must be. What a vision!

Ngaire, great to hear from you, and how nice that you have some family time on this cruise. By the way, you and Cindy (and anyone else onboard from Texas) look like about the smartest people we know! It is 102 and humid in Dallas today and probably about the same down near Austin, Cindy. So, enjoy cool Norway!!!!

This sounds much like the weather we had several years ago on NINJA on my first Norway cruise. Gerainger is absolutely a beautiful spot!

The weather has been to as perfect as one could order it up. Great cruise so far. Ngaire has a great group on board and it has beens loads of fun. Did play pooch the other day looking forward for other pooch days. Just entering Trondhiem now and looking forward to our tour on the Vintage Thamshavn Railway.

Cocktail party was last night and of course Capt. Dag was there. He is such a terrific host, very friendly.

Much more to say but not sure about the connection so will sign off for now.

Thanks for the SeaMail guys. Your cruise sounds like tons of fun! Can't wait for more and maybe some pix??????

Hi, all. The internet connection has been very hit and miss to say the least, thus the lack of seamail.

We are having a great time. Met lots of people at Ngaire's party. My husband (who is usually the outgoing one) keeps asking me how I know all these folks!

Weather is absolutely fabulous so far--bright and sunny. I should have brought my summer clothes.
We did the hike yesterday and it was great, actually just right. Not to hard nor too easy. Beautiful scenery as well. Today we went to the cathedral and folk museum on a ship tour and explored on our own afterward--very nice.

Food so far is great and service is beyond reproach. Ballroom Bravo was the show tonight and was great. I had seen it before, but with different performers, and I think tonight's was better than the previous.
Will try to report again as internet allows!

Carol and I ate in La Veranda last night so we could see the islands as we cruised from Tronhiem. The setting, service, food and wine were terrific. It was a perfect evening.

We finally got the internet back - it was down the all day yesterday. Glad to see some others have managed to get in some reports.

We were last on the Voyager over a year ago, so we are enjoying some of the new refurbishments. Like the new blue astro turf and the pool deck furniture. Also a nice makeup mirror in the room now, but unforutnately only 5 power (not strong enough for me, so I'll have to keep bringing my 10 power)

The weather continues to be picture perfect. This mornning is finally a bit cooler (54 degrees). Yesterday it was pretty warm out on the pool deck - like Rachel we were wishing we brought more light weight clothes. Hopefully it will continue to cool off as we head north.

The cruise down Geirangerfjord was stunning. The onboard lecturer commented that Seven Sisters and Bridal Veil Falls were the most outstanding he has seen (warm weather has really increased the snow melt). Unforunately photos don't do it justice, but I will try to get some uploaded since the internet seems to be working better.

I'll sign off for now.

Cindy, I did a similar itinerary on Crystal around the same time last year. The weather in Geiranger and Trondheim was sunny and relatively warm. I believe we reach 72 in Trondheim. It did get colder when we headed up north, coldest weather I encountered was at the N. Cape/Honnigsvag. We actually had mild weather in Longyearbyen, it was around 45 and sunny.

Enjoy, Nancy

I'm enjoying all the reports and happy to hear that you're weather has been so outstanding. Due to our less than perfect weather on FJORDS, this is one cruise I'd like to repeat. Keep having fun.

Quick post before lose internet. Cannot believe the picture postcard weather we have had. Not only for the Prince Albert but this entire voyage also.

Today was spectacular, a fjord we have never done before. Tonight at 11.30 pm we went into the troll fjord, largest ship to ever go into this fjord. No wind, totally flat sea, amazing. You felt you could reach out and touch the rock walls. I will report more later but this trip is one for the record books. No matter what else happens the last few days are incredibly memorable.

We will stay in tomorrow and hopefully we have internet and Ken can post some pictures.

Ngaire

Enjoying all your seamail and your weather sounds perfect - as Donna said ours was less than perfect but still enjoyed it -

Oh well, the streak of sunny weather couldn't last forever - woke up to rainy skies this morning. Maybe it will pass quickly.

As Ngaire reported, the cruise into the narrow fjord late was awesome. Captain reported no ship our size has ever attempted this before, so I think it was a treat for him as well,

Another fun experience yesterday was getting fresh fish right off of one of the fishing boats we were passing. David and I were sitting at the pool bar and saw the fisherman hold up a nice red fish as we were passing by. The shipped slowed down and allowed the little boat to come along side. The captain himself and the chef went aboard to check out the catch. Then there was a little bartaring, with a case of liquor being exchanged for several nice fresh fish!

As we have all reported, internet has been pretty spotty, so not sure how successful we will be posting pictures, but will continue to try.

Hi everyone

We slept in this morning and currently have internet so hopefully Ken can post some pictures today before lunch and pooch this afternoon.

A nice group of people on this trip. One new LCT cruiser is Susan who will be on Dragon, Nile and Dingo so that many of you will have the pleasure to meet her and play pooch with her. She is currently leading the "high score" category.

This trip has been spectacular. The weather makes so much difference and it has been picture postcard perfect and very warm. Norway is such a beautiful country and in the sunlight amazinging beautiful.

Today it is overcast but that is okay, we want it to be clear for Captain's Dag's home town and better a little less perfect now and clearing again later.

Be back later got to go answer emails now.

Love reading your seamail everyone. Keep having a great time...it is such a gorgeous part of the world.

Thought I would try to post a few photos while the internet is working. Let's see if I can do this correctly!

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Cruising Geirangerfjord


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Midnight Sunset in the Observation Lounge


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Crossing the Artic Circle


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The Captain checking out the fresh catch of the day

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Svartisen Glacier


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Troll Fjord

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Jerry Vasi in the Lounge. We have really enjoyed him. We were lamenting about not having our buddy Frankie Holiday on this cruise, but Jerry is really terrific.

Oops - made them too small this time. Will make them bigger next time!

As everyone has said, internet is quirky. Just to add a couple of things. The name of the super narrow fjord that we went into was Troll Fjord.
Today was cooler but not terrible, and it rained most of the morning which, of course, was when we were on our hike. The hike was really nice though--very good trail and pleasant young man from Scotland as the guide. We saw some sheep and would have had great scenery except that it was mostly too cloudy to see it. There were breaks when we saw spectacular glimpses however. It was a sort of up and over hike, not difficult at all. Ended at a nice gift shop/ reststop kind of place where I actually bought something (and I seldom buy anything at these places.)
Nice relaxing afternoon with a nap and exercise.

Cindy:

Enjoyed this album and several others. Will look at the others later but liked the wildlife in your backyard (hummingbirds and wild turnkey) & the PNW.

Cheers! Ray
p.s.: We did Norway, Capt. Dag's Way in 2005 and we, too, had beautiful weather and met some L.C.T. people who we enjoy to this day. It's nice revisiting beautiful Norway via your photos.

Photos From CAPTAINS:


Dinner on Brown & Keene Night. Susan, Ngaire, Ray, Captain Dag, Ralph, Pat, and Carol.


Seven Sisters Waterfall in Geirangerfjord.


Pat & Ray on Our way to the Top of the Mountain.


The Arctic Monument.


The Front of the Ship.


The Back of the Ship.


Captain Dag Intercepts a Fishing Boat, Yumm ... Fresh Fish for Dinner Tonight.


Just Beautiful Scenery.

On Our Way Through the Ever so Narrow Troll Fjord About 11:00PM at Night.


We Made It !!!


Good Night.

Awesome photos, Ken. Just what we have come to expect from you. Thanks!!

Oh what a great trip - thanks for pixs Ken - the best!!! Brings back memories of fun times and I am loving your weather -

Great photos - the weather is so fantastic! Sunbathing? Wow! I'm with Donna, FJORDS redux?

WOW!

Ken, great picts and they bring back wonderful memories from my trip last year.

Thanks, Nancy

Great photos! Can't believe the difference in the scenery when there is blue sky! We had a great time but what a shame we were washed out! Lee

Greetings from Honningsvag and the North Cape. Temperature is 42 degrees and quite breezy. Overcast skies, but the rain has held off - just a few sprinkles. Everyone was bundled up for their transfer to the Cape. I'm sure Ken will have some great pics of the cape.

Nice sea day before arrival around 4pm - a bit roly poly, but we like it that way.

Cheers!

All the photos are just breathtaking. Loving the seamail. Hoping for more sunny skies.