Balmoral & Bremen

On her way north from the Antarctic, and now on a "Circumnavigation of Western Europe" cruise the Bremen arrived in St Peter Port today along with Fred Olsen's Balmoral on her "Superbikes and Scenic Hikes" cruise. She will be in the Isle of Man for the TT on the 6th June.

In August the Bremen will start her cruise from Tromsoe, sail through the legendary North East Passage and end her cruise in Alaska. On the 7th September she will cross the International Date Line and the guests will "put their clocks back". Not looking quite so adventurous here the Bremen sat at anchor for the day in changeable weather from blue skies and sea to rather grey by the time she left.

If the guests of these liners were alert on the Guernsey Vaeux bus service as they went pass Port Soif, they might have seen the Conservation Herd of Guernsey cows. The local Societe Guernesiaise have bought the animal to graze its overgrown grasslands to enable the return of wild flowers and wildlife,

As the final tenders were returning to the ships the guests on board the Bremen's zodiac tenders might have appreciated the more traditional type of the Balmoral as a cold wind started to blow. The Balmoral, in the background, was built in the Meyer Werft yard in Papenburg, in 1988,  now the builders of many of the larger liners that visit the island.