Hotel Villa Borgen Visby
Adelsgatan 11 Visby, Gotland, 62157, Sweden
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Visby and relaxing on board
... lemons until someone comes to their aid. Idiot saying of the day – on the tender into town - ‘hey honey look at that ship out there’ ,’its ours babe’ ‘is it, it kinda looks different from here, are ya sure?’ – there wasn’t another bloody cruise ship for miles – what are they??!! (sorry about the swearing Fiona!)
Going to sign off now – got a book from the library (- another star!) a new Pern ...
Gonna party like its 1499!
... name brother from the far side of the world) joins me, also his friends and Saara. We sit and be merry watching the sun set and the tension build. Christoffer is drinking cask wine from his wine pig, a pig shaped leather good sack holder and maybe the greatest thing I have ever seen, definitely whipping one of those babies up on the sowing machine when i get home. He tells me how the pig is dangerous and the fire show begins, it is completely ...
Exploring Visby
The first washing day. It was a fabulous morning, hot and sunny and ideal for drying washing. Here in the marina there are 3 machines available on a pre-booking basis, with daily pieces of paper put out, demarcated into hourly intervals as from 08:00. At 07:58 we were there and 'bagsed' all 3 machines for the first hour. We wanted to wash our guests’ sleeping bags so that we could stow them away for the season and of course, we had some of our own laundry to do.
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Goodbye Blue Green algae!
... to give an idea as to the difference in the water was the temperature (our log or speed gauge has a thermometer built in) and sure enough, from an average of about 22°C in all previous measurements, it was now a chilly 15.5°C. That is a HUGE drop in just a few yards and must signify a radically different body of water – perhaps it is now more saline? Certainly there are more medusae around, not huge numbers but they are common.
We ...
Day At Sea
... I had lunch and then went to Diversions to play a board game and then went to watch a little of Alice in Wonderland in the Buena Vista Theater.
We left the movie in time to go to the Art of the Cruise Ship Tour. Since we had been on the tour before we ditched it a little early so that we could get ready for dinner.
Dinner was the Captain's Gala and we were in Parrot Cay. Dinner was ...



