Advent Day 6 Y Wing when you can ship ?

Hello everyone,

What’s behind door number 6 ?

Picture. Our advent collection is growing, it's the snow scene again, with the red dwagon to the left. The Tie Fighter is in front of the dwagon and the XWing is centre right. The droid and Leia are at the back and the walker is heading off to the right. Centre front is a white with yellow highlights space fighter with two long engines flanking a pilots area.

Today’s little model is an Alliance Y Wing. It’s a fighter bomber ship, not too good at either role :-D. But still a mainstay of the fighter fleet. Am I doing better than yesterday ? Maybe a bit. I should be better after a quiet weekend hiding from the storm that’s going to come through tonight.

Is now a good time to talk about ships ? Let’s go.

Picture. We're looking into a ship cabin. In front is a wooden topped table with our little red dwagon sitting on top looking at us. Behind are a pair of single beds, light green below and white blankets on top. At the back is a square porthole looking ashore flanked by striped curtains.

Let’s start with the cabin, I had a single grade cabin although as you can see there it is made up with two single beds there. Cozy ! And excellently turned out by the lovely MT who was looking after my cabin. To the left was a desk top with UK and Euro plug sockets. I also had a kettle and mugs in there, a couple of chairs, plenty of cupboard space, a fridge, safe and a shower bathroom behind the shot there. Really good place to disappear in to for the almost fortnight. (Excuse the untidiness I’m adding in there with my coat)

Time for a wander …

Picture. It's dark out, with the side of the ship being defined by a guard rail to the left. To the right is a row of portholes and doors, with that being the inside of the ship. We're looking straight ahead down a well lit external deck, disappearing into the distance.

My cabin was on deck 2, quite low down. Heading up a deck we had the Promenade deck. Borealis is 231m long, with the outer part of the Promenade deck covering most of that length of the ship and allowing you to walk (or some were running it) all the way around, outside of a little area that goes up to the Foredeck. There were some unlit parts of the Promenade deck as well which were my go to place for looking at the stars.

Picture. We're looking out over an exposed front end of the ship. There is a guardrail showing the extent of where we could go, with a small mast at the pointy end up front. Above, we see a little bit of blue sky with lots of wispy white cloud.

There we are, I didn’t get the chance to go up to the Foredeck much, it wasn’t open much over the fortnight. (Bit exposed there) That’s from when we were departing from Ferrol on the Friday, I’ve been timeskipping a little bit over the pictures.

Picture. We're looking at a very ornate column with a statue on top. The column has three clocks arranged vertically. Behind is a staircase curling around. Lots of wood, very polished, very well lit.

Heading up a deck and 4 and 5 decks were the main decks. That big statue and clock there was from the main atrium pretty much at the centre of the ship. Up front, we had the Neptune Lounge which was a big theatre hall place where the shows would take place. Back aft was the main restaurant, split over two decks. In the middle, mainly on 5 deck, were boutiques, ship shop (very ship shape), bar lounge and a few cozy places like the Bookmark cafe which became a go to chill out for a while place.

Picture. We're looking down at a coffee table, which has a mug of hot chocolate to the right, a huge piece of swiss roll cake to the left and a hungry looking little red dwagon hungrily looking at the cake.

They had cake.

I didn’t spend too much time on 6 and 7 deck, as these were mostly more decks for cabins, with 7 deck being where the Bridge of the ship was. 6 Deck was called the Highland deck and had a little observation area up front, where I found myself sitting for a while a few times. Nice peaceful spot, although it was a bit exposed with the wind.

Have I got something of 8 deck ?

Picture. We're looking down from above into a swimming pool area. The pool is in the centre of the deck, with deck chairs surrounding it on three sides. The pool is lit up in light green, with blue purple spots illuminating a bar area to the left.

There we are. 8 Deck was the Lido deck, with the pool there in the middle. This was one of the casual restaurant and bar areas, with the buffet restaurant where I’d have breakfast and two other bars sharing this deck. The Lido deck had gorgeous fish and chips. We could look out the back of the ship here from The View bar …

Picture. Our little red dwagon has found the ideal spot to watch a sunset. They were perched on a sunbed, with the rail of the ship behind them. Behind that is the sea, with the orange looking sky dominated by the setting sun.

There were beautiful sunsets and wonderful views out to sea. 9 Deck was almost completely open, with a little bar area up front. My favourite way of going to and from the main dining room was to go outside up to 9 Deck and then walk aft and go down from there. (There was a crew only area that blocked off the direct route on 4 Deck).

Picture. We're outside the ship, looking towards the front bit. Ahead of us is a light colour wooden deck. Left is the guard rail. To the right is a white painted cover. Ahead of the ship, angry looking cloud about to cover the sun up above.

That’s another view from 9 Deck, this time with the Lido Deck roof closed up. This is from the first Wednesday with a taste of what was to come there with the cloud … We were headed in to that, it was a bit rough :-D.

So there we are ! That was a little tour through Borealis. She’s a 231m long 65,000 tonne ship. Beautifully turned out, with a superb crew who looked after us fantastically well and made this a wonderful place to be for the 11 days of the cruise.

Time to sign off now … Tashnarr is streaming again ! Need to pay attention :-). Have a lovely evening everyone.

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