The ship docked early in the morning at Yokohama yesterday. There was a lot of cloud and smog around but as the day went on got very hot 31 deg! Our driver dropped us off at our hotel in Shinjuku and we had four hours to fill in so we…
Tag: Alaska/Japan 2018
Last day at sea…
Had a great last day at sea, lounged about all morning, saw two great shows today & had a lovely three course dinner… its been a great cruise!
Aomori
Yesterday we stopped at Aomori. We docked as we were having breakfast so this was the view from our table. Yet again we had perfect weather, the sun was shining and the locals were out ready to welcome everyone as they departed the ship. These girls were having a great…
Japan – Otaru
Not a lot to tell about our first day in Japan. We arrived about 9.30am but because of having to go through immigration ( which they do onboard the ship) it was after 1pm before we went ashore. We are usually up early and go up for breakfast at 6am….
Typhoons & unplanned stops!
Yesterday we made an unplanned stop at the island just on the other side of Cape Lopatka, below the Kamchatka Peninsula as there was a medical evacuation needed. Interestingly, we had only been to a talk two days ago where the dr on board explained all about the medical centre…