Last night was my first time

Last night, for the first time ever, I used a hair straightener or a hair iron or whatever you call those things.

For those of you thinking "but you're bald!" and then thinking "Eww!" I say, get you heads out of the gutter! I used it to iron my shirt (actual irons are not allowed on board). I think this is a rule in place since the Monitor vs. the Merrimac.

I just learned what is in a Rob Roy

The hard way!

Actually it is not a bad drink.

That wraps up today's  excitement. I spent most of the day reading and watching the water flow by.

Let's start with food

I had a nice lunch of salad, pasta Bolognese and fruit. That held me over until 5 when I had lunch #2 of half a croque something (think Monte Cristo without the jam) and some more fruit. How that gets me through to dinner!

Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic

I shot this on the last tough day we had at sea. Keep in mind that things were much worse than this but when they are they don't let you out on the Promenade which is the best place to watch rough seas (also the best place to get tossed overboard). In addition, the worst seas were so bad I doubled up my meclizine and, thankfully, slept through them.

Cornless Cobh

Woohoo! Two days in Cobh!
Day 1: pic of some colorful boats.

Day 2: second most interesting thing I found in Cobh.

On to...5 days at sea!

Greenock

In Greenock, I took a long walk from the short pier...a bit over 11 miles.

You can explore it in detail at this link: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6106178
Here's the view from the "top" (which is actually a path that parallels the Greenock cut).

There are some, uhm, interesting things to see around Greenock. Like the farm where they grow holes. I skipped this tourist trap but here's how you get there.

The Scots are also very strict when teaching baseball.

They also drive extra light cars like this...

because they apparently have weak bridges that might break at any moment.

There's lots to see and do here in...oh, we're done

For a 17 day vacation I really didn't take very many photos. Here are some of the very few I did take.

This first one was taken in Copenhagen, in the Slotsholmen area. Slotsholmen means "something I'm too lazy to look up". There aren't many canals in Copenhagen so the picture is a bit misleading but the buildings are pretty typical.

This picture was taken somewhere between Slotsholmen and the Little Mermaid. The fountain was so special but I thought the backlighting made for a nice pic. The camera didn't do the live scene justice but a little auto-Gimp fixed things up (a bit too well). 

And, of course, the picture that everyone takes. Why this is such a big tourist attraction can only be explained by looking at the other exciting pictures I have posted.

Lastly, as the ship set sail I snapped this shot. You can see the bridge to Malmo in the far distance. Closer in are a bunch of windmills. Closer still are a some people sailing, likely in protest of the giant eyesore windmills with their clean power generation and such. Oh wait, this isn't Nimby, USA!