Smee again,

Dorothy woke me at 0700h I was not a happy camper, we are 4 time zones east of Calgary and I have slept fitfully, waking in the middle of the night and then falling into a deep sleep and feeling disoriented when I'm awoken. We have two sea days ahead and I'm hoping to be adjusted by the time we hit Greenland.

We sailed into St. John's harbor at 0800h a historical town and capital city of Newfoundland, again we lucked out with the weather, the expected high for today is 27c and it was comfortable in t shirt and shorts. We traveled to Signal Hill where the first telegraph contact was made between North America and Europe, and on up to Cape Spear, the most Eastern point of North America. It was considerably cooler up there and we needed our coats. There were whales in the bay but we only saw their backs break the surface of the ocean.

Arrived back at dock side around 1400h, too late for the main dining room so went up to the lido restaurant for lunch. Dorothy has gone ashore I'm about to have a nap.
I lied, I didn't have a nap, decided to visit the explorations café and get the blog off early. Bad idea, I'm not able to say if it was satellite trouble, or my own incompetence, I tried to upload the photos I wanted to share with you, GRRRR I watched the revolving (thingy) that shows the photo is being uploaded but finally got fed up as it was putting me into a state of hypnosis and my eyelids were getting very heavy. Switching from upload mode to blog mode I copied and pasted the text and tried sending it but the gremlins were having a great time eventually disconnecting me with nothing accomplished except a P'O'd Toe having used up 20 minutes and getting nothing sent.

Had dinner, twas very good, chicken for D and beef for me, I finished off with cherries jubilee and I forget what Dorothy had. walked around the deck and the sun is still quite warm, those who have been this route before claim they have never had such good weather. It begs me to wonder is we could get lucky in Greenland!!!! Captain James Russell-Dunford made his apologies over the (tannoy) for keeping folks awake last night, visibility was poor and the fog horn was sounded through most of the night, I never heard a peep:)

:(:(:(:( Grrrr r@#^&*^%$#@ Tried to send this again, another nine minutes with nothing to show for it, the internet manager doesn't seem to be bothered by this and some of the pax are getting a bit hostile with him. To be fair to him, we were warned that this could happen, I'm thinking I may have to wait and suss out an internet café though I'm not hopeful that Greenland will have any. There are no tours in Qaqortoq, as the community is very small.

I'm going to have an early night so I shall don my nightshirt, light my wick and climb the wooden hill, night night all, I have no idea when I'll get this off but I know you all know, if I could I would but I can't so I won't. zzzzzz zzzzz zzzzzz.

Wednesday July 21st. I think!

Morning! And a foggy one too, definitely cooler so long sleeves for me though they're only needed if we are out on deck. Captain Hornblower is living up to his nick name today as we can't see much except well erm fog. I'll make one more try to get this away and thus caught up, no pics though, to make things easier I hope.

So now I will attempt to do this again, expecting different results. Yeah well some of you knew I was a bit erm "different" anyway. :)


Patience is a virtue it fills me full of woe, I'ts sometimes found in females, but never found in Toe