Rainy day – Reykjavik

This was a second day in port on the new schedule. It was cool (cold is when it is below freezing), with a rather strong sea wind  and – you guessed it – rain. I looked out side from my comfortable chair on Deck 8. It is a decent location. I have a small table. can sit directly under a light and out of the main stream of traffic at the far forward point of the lounge. This particular lounge doesn’t have the nice table next to the coffee bar, but I can adapt. I miss the outlet, but not having dozens of people stop by and make stupid comments is also an advantage.

The total number of passengers is around 26x (out of a potential 32x) which suits me fine. There are a few I know from previous cruises, some nice seeming new to this time cruisers, and a few who obviously missed the ?Seaborne/Viking? ship that was also beginning it’s cruise yesterday.  Did I also mention the National Geographic ship (complete with some rather entitled adults/offspring if my limited experience in the hotel or town was any indication) that was also departing?

Anyway – I wound up with a quite day in the lounge, people watching, stitching, explaining that this wasn’t knitting/crocheting/embroidery/needlepoint and am heaedd to bed rather early.

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to Rainy day – Reykjavik

  1. ron says:

    Where are you docked?

    • Holly says:

      We were just right downtown at one of the older piers – opposite the Art Museum if you want to look at the map. No long hike.

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