In retrospect, going to dinner yesterday evening was a bad idea. The food was too rich and I suffered a recurrence of the effects of the stomach bug and was awake during the night. On the plus side, when I was awake at 2:45am and looked out of the window I saw the Northern Lights again. Margaret was fast asleep so I crept around the cabin to retrieve my camera and was able to take some more photos through the window without waking her.
We had been instructed that cabins had to be vacated by 10am and suitcases left near the closest lift. So an early start was needed to have time for breakfast and packing. Once we had left our suitcases near reception we found ourselves (along with most of the other passengers) trying to find somewhere we could wait until 2:30pm when we were due to dock at Bergen. We walked around on deck 5 for a while but eventually ended up in the café on deck 7 while all around us, crew members were busy cleaning up in readiness for a quick turnaround when we reached port before the next cruise started a few hours later.
It was a relief to finally reach Bergen and start the journey home but it was a long day. A bus to Bergen Airport was the first stage but this was followed by a long wait for the flight to Copenhagen at 18:10. In complete contrast, we only had 35 minutes at Copenhagen to make the transfer to the onward flight to Heathrow (we did make it but it meant a very quick walk between arrival/departure gates!). I’m sure it was due to being tired but it seemed a long wait for the courtesy bus to collect the car from Purple Parking. And when it did arrive, some people who had arrived after us tried to get on the bus first. Thank goodness the driver was on the ball, casually enquiring if they were first in the queue. The result was, we got on the bus and they had to wait .. in the rain (no, I didn’t snigger .. honest).
Even that short journey appeared to take ages - 10:30pm on a Thursday night and we seemed to be in a traffic jam! It turned out to be some temporary lights for emergency roadworks and by the time we had collected the car and were driving away the queues had subsided. I was completely worn out by this time so I was glad we had booked a night at the Premier Inn. And being a large hotel, we were able to drop our bags in our room and have a hot drink and something to eat. With all the travelling we had not had a proper meal earlier that day.
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