Vacation Update

Another "sea day" has arrived at last and I've had the time to think about making another post. I do feel a little conscious of how, rationing my connection time out minute by minute, I've been able to keep reading my friends list but haven't got around to posting any replies to anything. Still, I've been keeping busy otherwise as the ship has zigzagged from Ireland to England and back and from England to the continent and back again. "Shore excursions" have taken me to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and to Hadrian's Wall in the north of England (there's not much of that man-made barrier left), and I went on bus tours of Paris (although there we only got out of the bus twice, once for lunch) and London (where I was able to get out of the bus more often). The weather finally started to clear and warm up after Ireland, although today on the North Sea things have been chillier again. I have managed to get around to uploading a few more pictures:

Our heroic vessel
Well, maybe not.
Our one time getting off the bus just for pictures in Paris
A view from the Thames