TROLL COUNTRY AND COMFORT
The 2nd A silence of over ten days. But I was up in Troll country on a cruise in the Fjords. When I returned there were an overwhelming +400 photos to look at taken from my camera, Iphone or Ipad....a micmac of images which I am still swimming around in.
Let’s go back. Close friends told me about this cruise which I felt that I could ill afford. «Nonsense» I was told. «It is the Costa line and after the incident in Italy when a captain steered his boat into an island - and sank it, confidence was not running high for Costa! Promotions, promotions....» sure enough the prices were cut to ribbons and in seconds, so it seemed, I had a cabin virtually next to my friends on the 7th deck up (on 9) and was now to visit the Fjords in Norway. A trip I have always wanted to do but not in these conditions. The cruise A town, a floating city or as another friend said rather cynically, « floating council flats»....of course, when you are talking about 3000 passengers, (we were 290