Hello everyone,
Back to cruise ! First though, what’s behind today’s door ?
There we go, it’s a stormtrooper melee staff person guard.
We’ll see how far this one goes again, I’m in that psychological shutdown mode again at the moment, because work is done for the year and I’m unconsciously going into rest mode plus a few of the aches have been maybe aggravated today (I have the numb fingers again). Plus I’m still worried about a few very special people.
To a better time and the cruise ?
That’s Porto in the background there. We were docked up in the cruise terminal, just about in walking distance of parts of the main city. A very short shuttle bus run took us to the outsides of the terminal and the start of a little wander.
Dwagon finding the best places to pose in again. The Portuguese Navy ship was in port here and I did actually have a better picture than I thought …
There we go, Portuguese frigate pennant number F333 NRP Bartolomeu Dias hanging around there and wanting to see if I could get a better peek gave me my choice of which direction to start walking in when ashore.
And so off I wander past a port side area with lots of equivalents of our sea side fish and chip shops. I suspect the fare would have been rather better, at least according to all of the sea birds lined up on the buildings opposite … waiting their chance to pounce. Like the young lady on a lad who I suspect was greatly enjoying the type of attention she was giving him. He wasn’t being given much of a chance to escape and I don’t think “escape” was on his mind at all :-D.
That wasn’t the only ship that caught the eye, we had a ferry transporter docked up next to us.
Not sure what they were doing with that one. It’d be a transporter vessel and they were moving lorries around on the top deck. Cue the mystified feeling because they’d bring a lorry to the top (they could drive around inside), park the lorry and its trailer … and the the lorry would go back downstairs again.
Anyway, back to shore and off I pop to explore, see if I could get a better view of the Navy ship and I find myself being led by the curiosity …
It was a good little wander, although I didn’t head into too many of the shops. Just a fish market where Dwagon was way more interested in looking at the fare than the film. I find myself nearing the end of the contents of my water bottle* and at the beach. Good little wander.
*I’ve been skating on a balance in my metabolism I think. I’ve been getting subjected to heavy cramping and one thing that helps keep that at bay is staying hydrated. So if I run through all of my water supply, that’s a big sign to start heading back before I start getting into cramping trouble … which leads to torn muscles and being restricted on how much I can move around.
Time to head on though and the sun was starting to retreat when we made our own retreat from Porto. But not before seeing a container ship do the naval equivalent of a three point turn to dock up at the container area.
There we go. This is after she turned in place to then finally back up to get alongside at the area to the right. Next day was a sea day, which meant a chance to enjoy a sunrise …
Sort out some of the pictures …
That’s part of the process I do for picking out the pictures. You can probably guess that I take a lot of pictures and only a selection are ones that I’d consider showing anyone or posting anywhere. So I copy all of the pictures to the laptop and then split them out by day. Then I’ll go through them picking out the best ones. That means that for the Mystery Cruise, I had a series of folders with names like “Mon 18”, “Sat 16”, “Fri 15” and corresponding ones called “Mon 18 – K”, “Sat 16 – K” and “Fri 15 – K” with the K being for Keeper.
All that done and it’s time for lunch and the Poolside bar did a lovely fish and chips. And then more general chill out and relaxing before enjoying a sunset as spectacular as the sunrise.
Time for me to head off like the sun did here a whole bunch of hours ago. Good night everyone, have a lovely timezone.