Today we visited Invergordon, Scotland. After a sea day, we want to stretch our legs and go some places. I am still not sleeping through the night, first waking up at 430 am to bright lights outside, going back to sleep and waking up again at 6 am. By that time, we could see land outside the window. Obviously we are pretty much on schedule to arrive at Invergordon at 7 am. Always interesting to watch the ship dock.
Another thing we notice about the ship is that there is hardly any announcements about things that are important. We were supposed to turn the clock back one hour going to Scotland from Hamburg. But other than a box in the daily newsletter, there was no announcement.
We are so used to the phone telling us time, many of us never had to change the clock. It becomes a problem when we are on a cruise across several time zones with no cellular network. The is no network to tell us what the time is! Some phone would automatically adjust the time when they have some sort of signals even though that is not their network. Some others would not adjust the time at all. Something to study after I come back.
Amid the confusion, one of the group members missed the meeting time to leave the ship. Good thing this is not an excursion day for us. We had plenty of time and the day went smoothly despite that.
Most people, according to the cruise port info, would go to Inverness, visit the castles or pay a visit to Nessie when they came to Invergordon. We decided to have a much simpler day doing some sight seeing in town. We tried and successfully tracked down all 11 murals in the town.
Invergordon is very small town, perhaps 20 blocks by 3 blocks. It only took us two hours to traverse most of the town slowly tracking down all the murals. We can also sense that they want simple lives. Although it is obvious that the town is not all touristy, there are local arts and crafts and souvenir shops. No point turning the tourists and their money away. Local crafts and clothings are well made and prices are very reasonable. Quite a few of us got something at the souvenir shops. Soon we were back on the ship for lunch.
We caught sunset after our late seating of dinner, at around 10 pm!!
Late night game.
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