Our day in the port of Skjolden in Norway came to an end with us returning to Sky Princess via the Sognefjellet Road with its stop at the Åsafossen Waterfall. With Skjolden located at one end of the Lustrafjorden, itself an arm of the Sognefjorden (the longest and deepest of all of Norway’s fjords), we would be treated to some lovely views of the Norwegian landscape as we made away towards the next port in Norway on this cruise.
This post, for the most part, will simply be photographs of the view from our balcony on Sky Princess as we cruised away from Skjolden and down the fjords.
There’s not a lot to describe that was new in the evening aboard Sky Princess either. At some point when you’re cruising – or just travelling in general – you do get into a rhythm and find what it is you like so just keep doing it. The good thing about cruising, though, is that the outside keeps changing while you’re doing that. We had a very good dinner in the main dining room, took part in the movie quiz where we finished second, then drank and danced until gone two in the morning.
With this cruise on Sky Princess taking place this far north in the height of summer, the sky never got dark so before we headed back to our room for the night we popped out briefly onto the ship’s (admittedly underwhelming) promenade deck just to snap a shot.
On the way back through the ship towards the elevators that would take us to our room I decided to capture some photos of some of Sky Princess’s interior spaces with nobody around. I find these sorts of pictures a little unsettling. I’ve seen a lot of cruise bloggers going out of their way to take photos and videos without people in them, and it never feels right to me. Not only that, but it’s not really representative of what being on a cruise ship is like. Ships aren’t wall-to-wall with noisy people (the lazy “Butlins at sea” trope spouted by the bigoted sub-moronic), but they aren’t ghost towns either, and I prefer to see what they’re like and give people a better expectation for what travelling by cruise is like. It’s also why I don’t like a lot of the TV adverts you see for cruising either, showing the happy family on a ship with a capacity of several thousand, apparently blissfully happy with perhaps just a dozen others; you’re going to upset some people with those misrepresentations, you know.
The next port of call on this Sky Princess cruise would be one we’d cruised to almost a decade before: Olden.