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[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

an you get a pint of Whitbread best on there too?

Which ironically given this thread was made with a hop called East Kent Goldings https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/igpgp4u2tb/

[East Kent Saint]

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

[Weston Super Saint]

39 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

Fucking illegal immigrants.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, East Kent Saint said:

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

Lots of them in neighbouring Worcestershire.

[Winnersaint]

11 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

 I am old enough to remember the White Star Line

Wow a Titanic survivor!

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Which shares - Carnival CCL are currently listed at £1980 per share...

That's they. I think that's about what I paid for them all those years ago. They are dual listed and AGMs alternate between London and Miami. I've been to a few. They're not the most dynamic bunch of executives that you might hope for.

[Whitey Grandad]

6 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Quite rare cruises that do that.

The mainstream lines, like the company that owns the coffee brand (and has a concession on their ships) tend to visit Flam, Olden, Helsyllt in the Fjords and add on a couple of sea towns like Haugesund, Kristiansand, Stavanger to make up the cruise length.

Still nice to sail along a Fjord sat on a balcony with a nice cup of Costa.

The locals are starting to get fussy about the type of ships that can use the Fjords. Geiranger in particular will eventually require visiting ships to be zero emissions. 

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Zorba said:

Might have to get a ferry. 

We did that. I drove my dear wife up to the middle of Sweden so that she could buy a large Dalahäst (red painted wooden horse) in Mora in Dalarna. Ferries go from Hirtshals in Northern Denmark to Larvik and Kristiansand but the Bergen route is probably better for western Norway. 

Or you could go the long way round over the Øresund Bridge. We drove outbound via Harwich - Esbjerg just before that route closed and back via Øresund and Hook of Holland. 

[Whitey Grandad]

5 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

FO and Hurtigruten go there, I think Ambassador do as well - not sure about NCL, but the main ones from Southampton, P&O, MSC, Princess, Carnival only do shorter 7 day cruises.

 

I've done the Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes and back twice but it's a voyage and not really a cruise. You only get a couple of hours in the bigger ports but not necessarily at the best of times. 

NCL do a couple but they are mainly aimed at the Americans with 9 or 10 nighters.

P&O still do some. Arcadia in August this year and Aurora in December.

We went up to North Cape on Princess in 2022 the year before I lost my dear wife but the emphasis now is on shorter ones. 

The Norwegians are getting fussy over environmental issues. Geiranger Fjord will soon only accept zero emission ships. 

The problem is that the big lines are moving towards ever larger ships and many ports can't handle them. 

[benjii]

Do Carnival run the fair on the common?

[Scummer]

15 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Which shares - Carnival CCL are currently listed at £1980 per share...

That's £19.80 by the way, not £1,980. UK shares are priced in pence.

[Whitey Grandad]

5 hours ago, benjii said:

Do Carnival run the fair on the common?

I first met the young girl who was to become my wife and lifelong companion at a disco called the North20 in Barnet High Street although we didn't call them discos then. It was a Valentine's evening on 12th February 1966 and we were both still just sixteen years old.

For the last dance of the evening they would always play "The Carnival is Over" by The Seekers. She always dreaded hearing this song because it meant that the evening was over and if you hadn't pulled by then you were going to go home alone. For the two of us, fifty-seven years later, the carnival is truly over.

By all means get tickets for the fair on the Common but you won't see much of the wider world that's waiting out there for you.

[Whitey Grandad]

4 minutes ago, Scummer said:

That's £19.80 by the way, not £1,980. UK shares are priced in pence.

Good point.

Although to qualify for the on board credit that you get for holding these shares you need to have at least 100 of them so that is what you would need to spend. This perk is available on all Carnival Cruise brands.