Let’s give a short round-up covering all the new travel content on the site plus any other bits of travel-related information I fill like spilling out in word form for literally maybe a dozen people to see. And eleven of them are weirdos. Who the hell is reading this? Is it important that anyone does? Wait, let’s not turn this into a philosophy website.
The last time I wrote one of these blog posts I had just started covering the first of two cruises on Sky Princess that we took in 2022. That has continued, so here’s what you’ve missed.
Following on from our visit to a fishing village, we headed back to Kristiansand and took a tour of the Kristiansand Open Air Museum there. Great guide, lovely buildings preserved for gawking at by tourist types.
That concluded our organised excursion in the Norwegian city but it left us enough time for a bit of a walk around Kristiansand to catch some highlights and have a beer in the sunshine.
Finishing up the day at this first port of call on this cruise, a post with some photos from Sky Princess leaving Kristiansand.
The following morning we awoke to find ourselves in the Danish capital city where, again, we’d booked an excursion with Princess Cruises. The last time we’d visited Denmark we’d headed off to see castles in the north of the country, so this time we wanted to catch some walking tour highlights instead. Owing to the length of time we were in port, the number of things we saw, and some unexpected problems later in the day, this excursion travelogue will be split into three parts and the first of those is now up on the site: Copenhagen Walking Tour, Part One: Kastellet, Gefion Fountain, Amalienborg. Plenty of military and art bits covered there, and an obligatory glance at The Little Mermaid too. It’s the law.
There’s one non-cruise bit of travel writing on the site that you’ve not noticed or don’t care about (delete as applicable), and that’s a wander around the grounds of Wilton House in Wiltshire. This was somewhere we’d visited before but it had been a while and we spent a weekend in nearby Salisbury last year so thought: why not?
So, that’s all that’s been written on the site. What else can I write about?
Well, at time of writing this we’re just three weeks away from finally getting out of this country for the first time this year. Croatia beckons with its long beckoning fingers at the end of its hands some describe as “beckony”, attached to arms that have beckoned more than you reckon. Our first time visiting Croatia, and we’ll be slipping in a trip to Slovenia too while we’re there. Jolly good.
I’ve just this week paid off the next trip on the calendar. Somewhat further afield, but that’s to Alaska, and, again, a first-time visit for us. I suspect it won’t be the last.
In more general web-related, somewhat social-media-related news, in case you missed it, I closed down my travel Twitter account recently. Nobody noticed, which tells you all you need to know about Twitter. I’m giving some serious thought to closing down Instagram too. The Fediverse is where my old, nostalgic heart is these days and with the news that WordPress have brought the ActivityPub plugin in-house with a likely view to integrating it more into the core product and potentially turning every WordPress site into its own slimmed-down Fediverse server with Mastodon compatibility at some point (please let that happen) I’ve really cut down on all the walled-garden, enshittified alternatives out there.
Finally, because I promised myself I’d keep this brief, and in case you were wondering about the title of the post and the reference to cruising on the Titanic, here’s a video walkthrough of a game currently in development with the frankly ludicrous name of Titanic: Honor & Glory. Klingon-related title aside, the view inside RMS Titanic and the fun that could be had with this 3D world… yeah, this is bloody lovely. Enjoy a wander through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class areas, plus some crew areas too.