{"id":12274,"date":"2017-08-27T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:27:19","slug":"sea-day-scotland-to-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=12274","title":{"rendered":"Sea Day &#8211; Scotland to Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday &#8211; August 27, 2017<\/p>\n<p>We left Portree, Isle of Skye Scotland last night and cruised northward toward the North Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0We set our clocks back a hour so I awoke early to a rainy day. \u00a0There were gale force winds and white caps on the water and the ship rocked back and forth. \u00a0By noon the wind had died and the seas were calm with just the swells.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_2072.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2072.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 2072\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After breakfast, we went to the theater to hear guest lecturer, Dr. Hannessoon talk about Greenland and the People. \u00a0He spoke about the history of the largest island in the world and the indigenous people who lived there. \u00a0A number of years ago, he went to the north western part of Greenland during the winter to explore, camp, and ski in the region. \u00a0He spoke about his experiences and showed his photographs of the trip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_2071.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2071.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 2071\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We caught the end of a presentation of the excursions in the three towns we\u2019re going to visit in Iceland starting tomorrow. \u00a0The towns looked small but very interesting. \u00a0Afterwards, we heard another Ask the Captain Q &amp; A with our new captain,XXXX. \u00a0He\u2019s younger than the previous captain and seems to be more flexible and smiles more.<\/p>\n<p>The Captain predicts a rainy day and 48 degrees tomorrow in Akyruryi .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday &#8211; August 27, 2017 We left Portree, Isle of Skye Scotland last night and cruised northward toward the North Atlantic Ocean. \u00a0We set our clocks back a hour so I awoke early to a rainy day. \u00a0There were gale force winds and white caps on the water and the ship rocked back and forth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}