Alaska Cruise

I’ve lost count of the days. The cruise was for 7 days from Vancouver along the Inland Passage, stopping at 3 Alaskan ports, on Holland America’s MS Volendam. The first day was cruising only which was good, as it was a chance to learn the ship but even on the last day it was hard to find breakfast. It’s not a large ship - 1400 passengers - and in that week we ate 20,000 eggs.

Wi-fi was US$29.99 per day so no wi-fi until Juneau where we found it free and fast at the public library, across from the Red Dog Saloon, specialty drink the Duck Fart. Don’t ask.

View from the library

Juneau is only accessible from the air or sea: on the day we were there so were 3 other cruise boats, a total of 4000 people descended on the town, walked the few streets and and SHOPPED. We walked to the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church which had a lovely garden:

  

David and I spotted a sign ‘The Mustard Seed’ and went into the store out of curiosity to find it was an Episcopalian op shop (churches are a feature of Juneau) with its attendant a keen fisherman. He and David had a lovely time topping each other’s fishing tales while I had a lovely time browsing. We spent a total of $14 but had difficulty reentering the ship with our carving fork and filleting knife.