Day at Sea

 In the original itinerary, we were to have returned to Bruges for the day.  However, Amsterdam made changes to our departure time due to lock controls, so we sailed at 3:00 am instead of at 7:00 pm last night which meant we wouldn't make it to Bruges.  Since we were just there a few days ago, it wasn't too disappointing.  Before we even sailed in June, the itinerary had been changed to eliminate the 3 Russian ports.  Since we've sailed we've had more changes.

- missed Martha's Vineyard due to bad weather on June 8

- added Saint Pierre, France (island below Newfoundland) on June 15

- missed Nuuk, Greenland due to bad weather on June 17

- missed Paamiut, Greenland due to bad weather on June 18

- missed cruising the Prince Kristian Fjord, Greenland due to bad weather on June 19

- added Akuyuri, Iceland on June 20

- missed Eskifjordur, Iceland due to bad weather on June 25

- missed Ronne, Denmark due to bad weather on July 14

- missed Visby, Sweden due to bad weather on July 15

- missed Newcastle, England due to a delay in Edinburgh departure on August 8

- missed the second call into Bruges due to the Amsterdam departure time change on August 13

So far we've missed 8 ports and a fjord sailing and added 2 new ports.  Mostly the problems have been because we are a smaller ship sometimes going to smaller places and as a result are subject more to weather conditions.  Captain Luksa explained that this ship doesn't have all the thrusters of larger ships so relies a bit more on tugs and better weather.  

This morning I went to a lecture by Sir David Durie about Joan of Arc.  He wasn't the best I've heard (kept saying Charles VI when his slides said Charles VII and a couple of the slides had wrong dates), but I did learn more about Joan of Arc, so it was worth it.

We missed Trivia because my phone/watch automatically switched the time when we entered into UK time so we were late.  We had dinner at Prime 7 which was great as usual.  I went to check out the show, a saxophonist, but left after a bit because jazz isn't my thing.  Tonight we do turn our clocks back an hour as my watch wanted to do earlier.